Primary Longman Elect

1. Primary Longman Elect 3A Chapter 2 Countable and uncountable nouns

2. There are two types of nouns. Countable nouns and uncountable nouns.

3. Countable nouns • We can count the number of the object. • We use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before it when there is only one. • We add ‘s’, ‘es’ or ‘ies’ when there is more than one. • We use ‘some’ when there is more than one. • e.g. an egg  some eggs • a tomato  some tomatoes

4. Countable nouns an egg a tomato a hamburger a banana

5. Uncountable nouns • We cannot count the number of the object. • We never use ‘a’ or ‘an’ before it when there is only one. • We never add ‘s’, ‘es’ or ‘ies’ when there is more than one. • We use ‘some’ when there is more than one. • e.g. rice  some rice • pork  some pork

6. Uncountable nouns milk butter cheese meat

7. cola Are the objects below countable or uncountable nouns? Countable Uncountable

8. sugar Are the objects below countable or uncountable nouns? Countable Uncountable

9. onion Are the objects below countable or uncountable nouns? Countable Uncountable

10. mushroom Are the objects below countable or uncountable nouns? Countable Uncountable

11. potato Are the objects below countable or uncountable nouns? Countable Uncountable

12. soup Are the objects below countable or uncountable nouns? Countable Uncountable

13. When there are two or more of the object, we can add ‘s’, ‘es’ or ‘ies’ to the end of the word. We call this the plural.

14. Countable nouns — plural cakes sandwiches cherries

15. We can’t count these words. We never add an ‘s’ to uncountable nouns.

16. Uncountable nouns milk tea jam

17. We use somewith uncountable nouns.

18. Some + uncountable nouns some pork some tea some soup

19. We can use some withcountable nouns too. some = more than one

20. Some + countable nouns some noodles some vegetables

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22. Practice Fill in the blanks. some 1 _______ congee a 2 _______ pear

23. Practice Fill in the blanks. an 3 _______ apple some 4 _______ rice

24. countable Practice Do we need to add ‘a’ or ‘some’? Are they countable or uncountable? _____ congee some

25. countable Practice Do we need to add ‘a’ or ‘some’? Are they countable or uncountable? _____ sausages some

26. uncountable Practice Do we need to add ‘a’ or ‘some’? Are they countable or uncountable? _____ salt salt

27. countable Practice Do we need to add ‘a’ or ‘some’? Are they countable or uncountable? _____ peach a

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