Countable and Uncountable Nouns will be discuss here
Dear students or anyone who ask this type of part of speech that is noun. People must be asking about this noun. So, here is a simple explaination around this noun.
Well, now; I am going to discuss Countable and Uncountable Nouns. Based on Cambridge Advanced-Learner's Dictionary, a countable noun can be used with 'a' or 'an' and can be made plural. It says that we can add 'a' or 'an' proceed the word that is as a noun. Let's say that "I have a pencil." In that sentence, can we find the noun? Well, it is obviously that the word 'pencil' is a noun. So that I write in the example "I have a pencil". Let's take a look in the other example. An example of a countable noun is 'table', and an example of an uncountable noun is 'money' such as John has a new table and I have money. There is a sample word that can be used as a comparison words in the case of countable and uncountable noun. In brief, Cambridge's dictionary tell us the simple definition of countable.
An uncountable noun is not used with 'a' or 'an' and cannot be made plural. As the example above, we can see that one of the sample word is ‘money’. We cannot say I have a money. Well, that’s simple one I think but we need to take this seriously. Words like 'electricity', 'blood' and 'happiness' are uncountable - we cannot say 'two electricities', 'a lot of bloods' or 'many happinesses' - and they are marked [U] in the dictionary.
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