COUNT AND NON-COUNT NOUNS

A count noun is something we can count. It has a singular form and a

plural form.
ex: one book, three books; a leg, two legs; an apple, six apples;
N.B. A singular count noun must have determiners.

A non-count noun is something we dont count. It has no plural form.
We use quantifiers before non-count nouns:
ex: fruit, some fruit; bread, a slice of bread; homework; a lot of homework;
information, a little information

The following are non-count nouns:

Abstract nouns:
advice
art
beauty
confidence
courage
crime
education
health
help
homework
honesty
hospitality
importance
information
music
news
noise
nutrition
patience
patience
pride
enjoyment
experience
fun
grammar
happiness
education
hate


intelligence
justice
knowledge
laughter
life
love
luck

progress
slang
time
truth
unemployment
vocabulary
work


Groups with individual parts

cash
change
clothing
equipment
food
fruit
furniture
garbage

hardware
homework
jewelry
junk
junk
luggage
machinery
mail
makeup
money
news
postage
research
scenery
slang
traffic

Things with no definite form:

Liquids
beer
blood
coffee
cream
gasoline
honey
juice
milk
oil
shampoo
soup
tea
water
wine

Gases
air
carbon monoxide
fire
fog
hydrogen
oxygen
pollution
smoke
steam
Solids
butter
cheese
cotton
film
flour
glass
ice
ice cream
meat
powder
salt
soap
sugar
toothpaste
wood
wool




Things that have tiny parts too small to count

corn
dirt
dust

grass
hair
rice
salt
sugar
wheat

Natural phenomena

darkness
dew
electricity
fire
fog
gravity

heat
humidity
light
lightning
rain
snow
sunshine
thunder
weather
wind







Ailments

cancer
cholera
flu

heart disease
malaria
polio
smallpox
strep throat


Academic subjects

art
biology
chemistry
economics
engineering

history
linguistics
literature
mathematics
music
physics
poetry
psychology
science







Languages
Russian, Spanish, French, etc.

Words that can be count and non-count

Food (non-count)
chicken
lamb
liver
fish
Animal or animal part (count)
a chicken
a lamb
a liver
a fish
non-count
wine
food
fruit
meat
education
experience
count (means "a kind of ___")
a wine, wines
a food, foods
a fruit, fruits
a meat, meats
an education
an experience
non-count
glass (the material)

paper (the material)

count
a glass (something to put
liquid in)
a paper (a report or
newspaper)
an iron (for pressing clothes)
a fire (one specific
iron (the metal)
fire (the gas)

time (an abstract
idea)
occurrence of fire)
a time, times (a specific
occurrence or period)

Determiners:

Articles:

a/an (indefinite)
the (definite)

Demonstratives:
this
that
these
those
Possessives:

my
our
yours
their
her
his
its

Quantifiers:

some
a few
lots of
several
each
every
any
most
many
all
much
no