Grammar: How much/how many?

How many squares are there in the picture?

 

Grammar: Countable or Uncountable Quiz

This is a link to a quiz about countable and uncountable nouns: http://a4esl.org/q/j/ck/ch-countnouns.html There are 107 questions!! All you need to do is click on Countable or Non-countable.

Grammar: Many men, many men, many men men men.....

How many men are there?

How much cheese is there?

Grammar: Countable or uncountable? Singular or plural?

What can you see in the picture? Which are countable and which are uncountable?

Countable nouns are things we can count. ("That's a piece of cake", says Tarek. "Yes, Tarek. It is," says Ryan.)

 So ......

bananas    oranges    carrots    tomatoes

But things like

bread   pasta   cheese   oil    milk

are uncountable. We cannot have two pastas, please and we cannot order three breads. We can't count these nouns so they will always be singular.

We can count countable nouns so they can be singular or plural

We cannot count uncountable nouns so they are always singular