What are count and non-count nouns?
Can we count bottles? Of course we can. I see one, two, three bottles.
Can we count water? No, we can’t. Water is one thing. It rains down, collects in rivers, lakes and oceans, and evaporates back up into the sky, but it is still one thing.
Non-count nouns are things that are, or are considered to be one thing. They are things we need to break apart into units or containers in order to have something to count.
We often use partitive nouns to indicate the quantity of something, since we can’t use numbers.
Can you label these containers?
Can you connect the count nouns to the non-count nouns?
Why do we need to know about this?
Countable and non-countable nouns matter because we use different grammar and vocabulary.
Let’s practice with more advanced vocabulary.
Take turns giving each other challenges with the non-count words below.
Further Reading
Cambridge Dictionary
