Today, we will study “Countables and Uncountables “
•Things we cannot count have no indefinite article , and usually no plural .
e.g
Ink / water / wood / darkness / butter / cheese / drink / grass / coffee / sand / rain / air
Remember that only some countables take “a “ or “ an “ .Indefinite Articles
e.g words beginning with consonat:
A dog a potato a student a chair
A pen a cow a fish a room
Words beginning with vowels :
An Englishman an engine an eye an elephant
An Australian an egg an apple an orphan
So, Uncountable nouns , and countables in the plural are preceded by “ Some “ When “ a certain quantity, or number “ is implied.
e,g :
Bread is good for us
it means : all bread, in general.
Give me some bread.
It means: a certain quantity
“ a or an “ is used for any one example of a countable noun. The plural of this is “some”
“Some “ means an unknown number of that noun.
E,g:
I have a red book; I buy some black books
“There is / there are “ introduced this idea instead of the simple verb to be.
e.g: There is a broken chair in the corner of the room.
There were some books on this table yesterday.
There will be a pinic in the forest next Friday.
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