Count and Noncount Nouns

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Count and Noncount Nouns
Some nouns can be plural. Others cannot.
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What is wrong with the nouns?

• The house has three bedroom.
• There are many milks in the fridge.
• There are five reds cars over there.
• Some class are at night.
• Their childs are beautifuls.
• Would you like other option?

Are were looking at flower or flowers?
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Guideline 1
Count and Non-Count Nouns

• In English, we have countable and non-countable
  nouns.
• Some examples of countable and non-countable
  nouns are
• below.

Countable Nouns
Non-Countable Nouns
More Non-Countable Nouns
chair student day song computer room
love money weather food fruit furniture
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Guideline 2
Countable Nouns

• Countable nouns can have singular and plural
  forms and
• can be counted numerically. Most countable nouns
  can be
• made plural by adding s or es.

book
books
3 books
box
boxes
2 boxes
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How do we form irregular plurals?

• Irregular plurals add en or change their sounds
• woman ? women
• child ? children
• ox ? oxen
• tooth ? teeth
• mouse? mice
• louse? lice
• self ? selves
• thief ? thieves
• life ? lives
• half ? halves

What are these animals called?
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Guideline 3
Non-Countable Nouns

• Non-countable nouns have only one form and cant
  be
• counted numerically. Look at the examples below.

monies
money
one money
money
healths
health
two health
health
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Guideline 4
Non-Countable Nouns

• Non-countable nouns cannot take the plural s or
  es or
• an article (a, an).

a furniture
furniture
furnitures
furniture
a news
news
newses
news
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Guideline 5
Irregular Plural Nouns

• Some nouns have an irregular plural form. Look
  at the examples below.

woman
womans
women
child
childs
children
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What types of non-counts exist?

• Mass nouns such as money, sugar, and vocabulary
  are not countable nouns.
• Gases, liquids, and solids are also non-count
  nouns.
• Natural conditions like weather and light are
  uncountable.
• Abstactions such as fun, beauty, and knowledge
  are not counted.

• Classify each noun
• ___ water
• ___ apple
• ___ health
• ___ letter
• ___ gold
• ___ traffic
• ___ automobile
• ___ furniture
• ___ chair
• ___ parent
• ___ sunshine
• ___ information

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Guideline 6
Noun Quantifiers

• Words like, a few, a little, much, any, some,
  and many
• are used differently depending on whether the
  noun in the
• sentence is count or non-count.

a few
count nouns
a few bananas
a little
non-count nouns
a little flour
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(Continued)
Noun Quantifiers
many
count nouns
many chairs
much
non-count nouns
much furniture
some
non-count nouns
some furniture
count nouns
some chairs
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(Continued)
Noun Quantifiers

• Any is used in negative sentences with count and
  non-count nouns. Notice the difference in plural
  and singular verbs.

any
count nouns
There arent any chairs.
any
non-count nouns
There isnt any furniture.
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Guideline 7
Agreement with Demonstrative Adjectives

• Remember to make demonstrative adjectives (this,
  that, these, those) agree with the nouns they
  modify.

singular
plural
these room
these rooms
this rooms
this room
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Guideline 8
Nouns and of phrases

• A countable noun is always plural after an of
  phrase that shows quantity. A non-count noun is
  always singular after an of phrase.

plural
Some of the chairs are broken.
of phrases
singular
Some of the furniture is broken.
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Guideline 9
Adjectives

• Adjectives are never plural.

Those are beautifuls houses.
beautiful
That is an olds book.
old