100 Countable and Uncountable Nouns Examples
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Countable and Uncountable Nouns
In English, nouns are divided into countable and uncountable. Countable nouns are those that we can count concretely, such as pear, apple, and book. Uncountable nouns are those that we cannot count one by one, such as rice, water, honey. In fact, rice, which is one of the names we give as uncountable, is an object that we can count if we try. But when we go to the market in our daily life, we say to the seller, “I want to buy one thousand four hundred and thirty-three grains of rice.” we do not say. Instead, we say the weight of the rice we want to buy, for example, one kilogram. This is the case for many uncountable objects. Another example of this is money. Although we think that we can count money, it is in the category of those that cannot be counted because we do not count money, but the value of money.
Countable Nouns
Countable nouns are objects that we can count with numbers. It can appear in singular or plural forms.
Examples
- He has two fountain pens.
- He has a fountain pen.
- He doesn’t have two fountain pens.
- He doesn’t have a fountain pen.
- He doesn’t have any fountain pens.
If we want to know the number of objects, “How many?” We use the question. We use “any” in interrogative sentences to indicate a quantity, as in negative sentences.
- How many pencils does he have?
- Does he have any pens?
- I want to give John some of the peaches I picked from my garden.
- Mary has a menstrual dress she bought to wear at Christmas time.
- My brother has two dogs.
- I don’t have any paper with me.
- How many classes do you have this semester?
- My family no longer has a home.
Countable Nouns Examples
1.accident
2.account
3.actor
4.address
5.adult
6.animal
7.answer
8.apartment
9.app
10.apple
11.article
12.artist
13.aunt
14.baby
15.bag
16.ball
17.bank
18.battle
19.beach
20.bed
21.candle
22.candy
23.captain
24.car
25.card
26.carrot
27.case
28.case
29.castle
30.cat
31.cent
32.chair
33.chapter
34.chest
35.child
36.cigarette
37.city
38.class
39.cloud
40.college
41.daughter
42.day
43.desk path
44.doctor
45.dog
46.dollar
47.door
48.dream
49.dress
50.driver
Uncountable Nouns Examples
1.aid advice
2.air
3.anger
4.art
5.assistance
6.bread
7.business
8.butter
9.calm
10.cash
11.chaos
12.cheese
13.childhood
14.clothing
15.coffee
16.content
17.corruption
18.darkness
19.data
20.determination
21.economics
22.education
23.electricity
24.employment
25.energy
26.evidence
27.failure
28.fame
29.food
30.freedom
31.friendship
32.fuel
33.fun
34.furniture
35.genetics
36.gold
37.grammar
38.guilt hair
39.happiness
40.harm
41.health
42.heat
43.help
44.homework
45.honesty
46.hospitality
47.housework
48.humour
49.imagination
50.importance
