Countable Nouns

  COUNTABLE NOUNS

Countable nouns name objects which can be counted. These nouns have their singular and plural forms. In this category come common nouns (like pencil, bird, tree, wall, etc.) and some collective nouns (like union, team, committee, etc.)

 Examples

• A pencil, two birds, fifty meters, a million stars, two unions,

ten teams..

Examples

• Water, honey, wheat, rice, sugar, iron

 We cannot say a water, two sugars or many golds. We don't think of such nouns in terms of numbers but think of them in terms of quantity or mass. We measure them by using a unit, which can be counted

 Other Examples

 A glass of water

 A pint of wine

 A liter of oil

 A bottle of milk

 A cup of tea

 Two spoonfuls of brandy

 A dose of medicine

 A cask of beer

 A bag of rice

 A kilogram of sugar