Category Examples

advice, courage, enjoyment, fun, help, honesty,

Abstractions
information, intelligence, knowledge, patience, etc.
chess, homework, housework, music, reading, singing,
Activities
sleeping, soccer, tennis, work, etc.
beef, bread, butter, fish, macaroni, meat, popcorn, pork,
Food
poultry, toast, etc.
air, exhaust, helium, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen,
Gases
pollution, smog, smoke, steam, etc.
baggage, clothing, furniture, hardware, luggage,
Groups of Similar Items
equipment, mail, money, software, vocabulary, etc.
blood, coffee, gasoline, milk, oil, soup, syrup, tea, water,
Liquids
wine, etc.
electricity, gravity, heat, humidity, moonlight, rain, snow,
Natural Events
sunshine, thunder, weather, etc.
aluminum, asphalt, chalk, cloth, concrete, cotton, glue,
Materials
lumber, wood, wool, etc.
corn, dirt, dust, flour, hair, pepper, rice, salt, sugar,
Particles or Grains
wheat, etc.
The following are non-count nouns:
Abstract nouns:
advice health music
art help news
beauty homework noise
confidence honesty nutrition
courage hospitality patience
crime importance patience
education information pride
enjoyment intelligence progress
experience justice slang
fun knowledge time
grammar laughter truth
happiness life unemployment
education love vocabulary
hate luck work
Groups with individual parts

cash hardware makeup

change homework money
clothing jewelry news
equipment junk postage
food junk research
fruit luggage scenery
furniture machinery slang
garbage mail traffic
Things with no definite form:

Liquids Gases Solids

beer milk air butter meat
blood oil carbon monoxide cheese powder
coffee shampoo fire cotton salt
cream soup fog film soap
gasoline tea hydrogen flour sugar
Honey water oxygen glass toothpaste
juice wine pollution ice wood
smoke ice cream wool
steam
Things that have tiny parts too small to count

corn grass salt

dirt hair sugar
dust rice wheat

Natural phenomena

darkness heat snow

dew humidity sunshine
electricity light thunder
fire lightning weather
fog rain wind
gravity
 Ailments
cancer heart disease smallpox
cholera malaria strep throat
flu polio

Academic subjects

art history music

biology linguistics physics
chemistry literature poetry
economics mathematics psychology
engineering science

Languages
Russian, Spanish, French, etc.