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Countability, Determiners

Countability, Determiners. Countable nouns. Countable nouns can be singular or plural: My  dog is  playing./ My  dogs are  hungry. We can use the indefinite article  a/an  and the definite article the with countable nouns: A  dog is  an  animal. I ate the cherry yesterday. Some/any.

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Countability, Determiners

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  1. Countability, Determiners

  2. Countable nouns • Countable nouns can be singular or plural: • My dog is playing./ My dogs are hungry. • We can use the indefinite article a/an and the definite article the with countable nouns: • A dog is an animal. • I ate the cherry yesterday.

  3. Some/any • We can use some/any and few/many with countable nouns: • I've got some dollars. (+) • I haven’t got any apples. (-) • Have you got any pens? (?) • We can use a few and many with countable nouns: • I've got a few dollars. • I haven't got many pens.

  4. Uncountable nouns • Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. • We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular. We use a singular verb. For example: • This news is very important. • Your luggage looks heavy.

  5. a piece of news, a bottle of water, a loaf of bread etc. • We can use some/any and little/much with uncountable nouns: • I've got some money. • Have you got any rice? (?) • I've got a little money. (+) • I haven't got much rice. (-)

  6. Determiners • Determiners are words which come at the beginning of the noun phrase. They can be: • Predeterminers: twice, double, half, both, all • Central determiners: the, a, my, these, that • Postdeterminers: next, last, previous, two, several

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