5.1 Count noun and Non-count Noun

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This the first post of mastering the usage of count nouns and non-count nouns. For achieving that we’ll take a closer look at the rules and regime of Count and non-count nouns.

Here is a quote from a well-known personality, Rabindranath Tagore. He was an Indian poet, musician, and artist. He transformed the Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was the first non-European, became in 1913 to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. 

Why you should learn this topic?

-It is crucial to learn this topic because we in the general speech we have subject and verb, the subject is always a noun and the employment of the verb depends on the noun used in a sentence is singular or plural. 

Kindly, refer to article 5.1.1. (Sub.-verb Agreement)

The ultimate guide to Learn: Count and Non-count Nouns

Here, the quote is, “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

Grammar point: 5.1) Count nouns and Non-count nouns:

Before we go deeper in Count nouns and Non-count firstly, we should know about nouns.

What are nouns?

-Nouns describe many things like people engineer, doctor, nurse, etc., places school, college, work, etc. things earth, sun, water, etc. below we can see examples of nouns that are underlined.

Examples:

     1)    Students are going to school.

     2)    Players are playing on the ground.

     3)    The library has many books.

 There are two types:

      1)    Count nouns

      2)    Non-count nouns

      1)    Count nouns:

 Count nouns are nouns which we can count in numbers like 2, 13, 1444, a thousand, 1 million, etc. If we have one noun, then we must use article ‘a’ or ‘an’ in accordance to the pronunciation of the noun, or if nouns are more than two so we use plural form of a noun by adding ‘s / es / ies.’

Examples:

 2, 13, 1444, tables, desks, boxes.

  A thousand students, books.

  2 million cars, homes, videos.

Count noun rules for plurals:

(Note: Vowels= A, E, I, O, U. Consonants= all other letters)

Most=s	V+y=s	V+o=s	C+y=ies	Sh,ch,ss, x=es	C+o=es
Students	Keys	Zoos	Ladies	Boxes	Heroes
Desks	Boys		Babies	Matches	Potatoes
Books	Essays	Videos	Countries	Classes	Zeros
Cars	Toys			Buses

These are some irregular plural form they do not follow the above pattern:

Singular:	Plural:
Child	Children
Man	Men
Woman	Women
Foot	Feet

    
    2)    Non-count nouns:

Non-count nouns are nouns which we cannot count in numbers like 2, 13, 1444, a thousand, 1 million, etc. they differ from count nouns. They include rice, air, mathematics, soccer, cancer, etc. we cannot use numbers and articles (a, an) with it but we can use an article ‘the’ for specific nouns.

Non-count nouns:

Very small things	Rice, grains, flour, salt, sand
Gases	Oxygen, air, ozone, hydrogen
Studies	History, chemistry, biology
The whole of a group	Furniture, staff, luggage
Activities	Cricket, tennis, chess
Diseases	Cancer, diabetes, depression
Abstract idea	Happiness, joy, justice.

Here, in this quote, “The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.”

As we can observe in the bold and italic written nouns are non-count nouns. In addition, we can observe in our example that non-count nouns don’t have articles (a, an).

For more information about non-count noun and count nouns, you can refer to English to English dictionary where you can find uncountable nouns and singular nouns which is same as non-count nouns and count nouns. Thank you for reading now you can subscribe to our blog the ultimate guide to learn: English grammar for the latest updates by email notifications for free. And hence if you have query or suggestion write in the comment section.

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