Countable Uncountable Nouns Upper-intermediate level

Countable Nouns ‘Can be counted’ A cake – cakes A lady – ladies (but, a boy-boys) A Potato – potatoes (but, a kilo-kilos, a photo-photos, a piano – pianos) A wolf – wolves (but, a cliff – cliffs, a roof – roofs, a hoof – hooves, hoofs, a scarf – scarves, scarfs) A watch – watches A fox – foxes

Countable Nouns Irregular Plurals Man-men Woman-women Child-children Foot-feet Goose-geese Louse-lice Mouse-mice Tooth-teeth Ox-oxen Deer-deer Fish-fish Person – people

Countable Nouns Latin and Greek nouns: Crisis-crises Basis-bases Phenomenon-phenomena Datum-data

Uncountable Nouns ‘Cannot be counted‘ They take a singular verb and are not used with a/an. Can be divided into the following categories:

Uncountable Nouns Mass Nouns Subjects of Study Beer Blood Bread Butter Water Milk Physics Economics Literature Chemistry

Uncountable Nouns Chinese French Spanish Football Hockey Darts Languages Sports Chinese French Spanish Football Hockey Darts Basketball

Uncountable Nouns Chickenpox Measles Mumps Diseases Natural Phenomena Sunlight Fog Gravity Hail Snow

Uncountable Nouns Certain Nouns Collective Nouns Baggage Cutlery Accommodation Advice Anger Behaviour Education Luck Music Shopping Truth Weather Homework Baggage Cutlery Furniture Jewellery Luggage Money Rubbish

Uncountable Countable A piece of information A piece of advice A bar of chocolate A lump of sugar A game of soccer A rasher of bacon

Singular and Plural Verb Forms

Глагол в ед.ч. используется после: A sum of money 5 dollars is not a huge sum of money. Distance Three thousand miles is the distance from here to Montreal.

Глагол в ед.ч. используется также после: Council Army Club Press Government Company But, The company has/have decided to renovate the building. Jury Family Team Group Crew Crowd Class Audience

Глагол в мн.ч. используется после: Clothes People Police Stairs Surroundings Outskirts Premises Earnings Wages Cattle Poultry

Глагол в мн.ч. используется после: Things with two parts: Trousers Binoculars Shoes Gloves Pyjamas Glasses

Some / Any

A cake – singular countable Some cakes – plural countable Some water – uncountable

I possess some money. I don’t possess any money. I possess no money. Do I possess any money? Can I have some money? There is hardly any money left. If you tell anyone, I’ll be angry. Take any of these two chairs!

Much / many

Much / many Negative sentences I haven’t got much time. - uncountable There aren’t many dollars left. – countable Negative sentences

Much / many A lot of, lots of (count./uncount.) + Plenty of (count./uncount.) A great/good many (count.) A good/large/great number of (count.) A good/large/great deal of (uncount.) A large/small amount/quantity of (uncount.) So much, too much (uncount.) +

(A) Few / (a) little

Countable Nouns A few = some (positive) Few = not many (negative) Examples: I have a few friends. I have few friends.

Uncountable Nouns A little = some (positive) Little = not much (negative) Examples: We’ve got a little time. We’ve got little time.