Additive and uncountable nouns
Countable nouns: countable nouns. Add an s at the end of the word
. Countable nouns fall into two categories
Common nouns: teacher teacher,eraser eraser
Collective nouns: a group of the same people or things (countable by group)
such as police,family
Uncountable nouns: nouns that cannot be counted
Not ending in s
. Uncountable and without definite boundaries
Substance nouns: homogeneous, uncut substances are uncountable nouns (metal [iron: iron], liquid [water: water], money [money: an image of quantity])
Incorrect: I eat a pizza.
(unnatural sentence because it translates as "I eat a whole pizza of disks")
.
Abstract noun: like an invisible concept, property,
or emotion (something that has no form and cannot be perceived
(seen, touched, or heard))
news news,information information
. Adding an article (a/the) to the abstract noun success [success] changes its meaning,
but it can be a countable noun, a common noun, but the meaning changes.
a success (one success [addition])
a success
Proper noun
. Nishino Nishino (unique person's name),
Australia unique place name,October unique month, day of the week
.
Applications
little:used for uncountable nouns (e.g. liquid),negative nuance to express a small amount "almost nothing
(I'm having trouble with little)"
. a little:used for uncountable nouns, a small amount
. few:used for countable nouns (e.g., friends) "hardly ever",
negative nuance "hardly ever (I'm having trouble with a few)", small number
. a few:used for countable nouns, a small number
. several: used for countable nouns; two or more lesser numbers.
Short Notes
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