In this session, we will study countable and uncountable nouns. Let’s see the following points in detail.
Countable Noun
Countable nouns are those nouns which can be counted. Countable nouns can be used in both singular and plural nouns.
Example-: books, apples, pens, phones, glasses.
Uncountable Noun
Uncountable nouns are those nouns which can not be counted easily.
Example-: Money, Milk, time, e.t.c.
Quantifiers for Countable and Uncountable Nouns
we use quantifiers when we want to give information about number or quantity of a noun.
Example-: we ate some bread and butter. (some is quantifiers).
we can use different type of quantifiers in countable and uncountable nouns.
| With Countable Nouns | With Uncountable Nouns |
| much | many |
| a little/little/very little | a few/few/very few |
| a bit (of) | a number (of) |
| a great deal of | Several |
| A large amount of | a large number of |
| a large quantity of | a great number of |
| a bit of | a majority of or a couple of |
With both countable and uncountable nouns
| All |
| enough |
| more/most |
| less/least |
| no/none |
| not/any |
| some |
| any |
| a lot of |
| lots of |
| Plenty of |
| heaps of |
| tones of |
| loads of |
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