Countable English Nouns | Fix Common Grammar Mistakes & Errors
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So many of YOUR English mistakes are related to the way that you use nouns! In this free video lesson, we are going to improve your use of English nouns!
There are two types of nouns - countable and uncountable. Knowing the difference between them and how you can use these types of nouns is really important. It affects how you use:
- articles (a/an/the)
- much/many
- some/any
- a little/a few
- so/such
Learning and understanding how countable and uncountable nouns are used differently in English will DRAMATICALLY improve your grammar!
I've made a worksheet that you can download so you can practice what you learn in this lesson.
This video, we’ll focus on countable nouns. You can check out my lesson on uncountable nouns right here: • Uncountable English No...
What you need to know about countable nouns:
Some nouns are ‘countable’ - very simply, you can count them!
We can say there are three, five or ten of these nouns.
Countable nouns have singular and plural forms.
For example: one lemon (singular), three lemons (plural)
You can use the articles 'a' and 'an', with the singular form of the noun: a glass, an apple, a banana…
What about plural countable nouns?
When you have a plural countable noun, you can use the number to say how many. Or you can use ‘some’ (when you don’t want to be specific about how many)
You can say: some red chillies, some potatoes, two forks and three zucchinis!
Most English nouns are countable nouns. Other examples include: day, week, hour, minute, dollar, task, story, job, coin, accident and appointment.
Countable nouns:
- can be singular or plural.
- use a/an when using the singular form
- Use some when plural, but you don’t want to be specific
- Use the number to be specific!
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7 жыл бұрын
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
They are indeed! I'm glad you found this lesson helpful!
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7 жыл бұрын
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Thank you Emma. What about the ? I have to use it for countable or uncountable? I think the is like a/an for countable and when I can use it when I know which one it is.
What I noticed is that Emma explains the countable nouns well!!!
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7 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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Thank you so much for this amazing lesson, Teacher. Actually, countable and uncountable nouns are a big problem to me, but I'm trying to overcome it. I love your didactic.
@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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@hussainbreasim97
2 жыл бұрын
Please answer me ? Countable and un countable which has singular verbs and others has plural verbs , which are there in list please
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
3 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
It happens in reverse with words like: - a uniform - a University Though the first letter is a vowel, the first sound is the consonant /j/
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6 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
Awesome! Check out the uncountable nouns lesson too... It's a bit more of a challenge!
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7 жыл бұрын
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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When we have uncounbable nouns, it change when we use was/were and more: the class were or the class was. These two have two diffrent meanings could explain that
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
6 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
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3 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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Hi Emma :). I appreciate your videos and I have used some of them with my classes already. One thing you didn't mention in this video, which is something many of my Chinese adult learners have trouble with in addition to knowing whether a noun is countable or not ("knowledges" comes up a lot, and "vocabularies" is a bit confusing, since it's also a word, albeit with a different meaning), is knowing when to use the singular or plural form of a countable noun, since the Chinese language doesn't have singular or plural forms. As a general rule of thumb, I usually tell them that if there could be more than one, or none, then we use the plural form (e.g., "I don't have any *tasks* to work on right now," or "Do you have any *tasks* you'd like me to work on?"), though this isn't always the case, particularly with idiomatic phrases like, "Do you have a minute?", or in the case that you are asking for just one of something (e.g., "Do you have a pen?").
@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
Very true Michael! I definitely need to make a few more videos to 'complete the story' of English nouns!! Great suggestion! Where are you teaching in China?
@magedo7023
7 жыл бұрын
hii michell yes we have some trouble in this stuff that she did not mintioned
@michaelhilliard2370
7 жыл бұрын
I work at an American-owned software company in Xi'an, doing communication and cultural training for the staff here. I definitely appreciate your videos and the work you do--thank you :). Sometimes it's hard for me to find content that's suited for my adult learners, particularly because I have a range of ability levels that I work with, from beginners to advanced. Also, it's common in China for younger people to have moderately good English reading and writing skills, but listening and speaking skills tend to be very minimal because it's rarely practiced in most schools (Chinese English teachers often primarily use Chinese when teaching English...) When I look around online for material that might be good for using in listening practice or in quizzes and tests, a lot of it tends to be either too hard or too difficult, or not relevant, but recently I've been able to use some of the videos that you and Lucy have done with pretty good effect. So, again, thanks :)
@kyerabirwamugambi
5 жыл бұрын
@@michaelhilliard2370 there is also learn English-EnglishClass 101.com is great too , with Alisha
Can you please do a video about collective nouns please? because i have an exam about those thanks yours sincerely: Sarah
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Ankur! :)
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7 жыл бұрын
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7 жыл бұрын
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
5 жыл бұрын
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Hi Emma, It's a very much useful video. Thanks for your time and to your way of teaching, it's helps people like me. Need favour could you please share the cheat sheet for countable and uncountable nouns to my mail id? as I'm not able to download it through the link you provided. Thanks in advance:)
@mmmEnglish_Emma
6 жыл бұрын
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6 жыл бұрын
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
You're welcome Simone, thanks for watching!
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
Enjoy!
@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
So glad to hear it Simone!
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@mmmEnglish_Emma
7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Andrey!