A noun is the name of a person, place, or thing. An uncountable noun is a noun that cannot be counted. They are also called mass nouns.

Sentence Structure:

uncountable subject noun + singular verb

Key feature: They are used as a singular verb when they are the subject.

They do not generally end with ‘-s.’

Examples

We will eat pasta for lunch.

Drinking orange juice is healthy.

My grandmother always buys some meat whenever she goes grocery shopping.

Please, I will like tea.

I think drinking coffee is unhealthy.

Please let me know what you want to eat. Do you want milk for your cereal?

How can we use an uncountable noun?

1.We can use some and any with uncountable nouns:

Example

I will like to have rice. Have you got any?

Don’t worry about paying the debts; I have got some money.

2. We can use a little and much with uncountable nouns

Example

Mum, please send me more money. I have a little remaining.

I haven’t got much rice. Could you add me more?

Exception

We do not usually use the indefinite article a/an with uncountable nouns. We cannot say “an information” or “a music.” But we can say a “something” of: a bottle of pineapple juice, a grain of rice, a piece of news

Uncountable noun examples

Certainly! Uncountable nouns, also known as mass nouns, refer to things that cannot be easily counted as individual units. They usually represent substances, concepts, or qualities that are considered as a whole. Here are some examples of uncountable nouns:

1. Water – We cannot count “water” as individual units.
2. Sand – Sand is an uncountable substance.
3. Knowledge – Knowledge is a concept that can’t be counted.
4. Music – You can’t count “music” as separate items.
5. Air – “Air” is a continuous substance.
6. Happiness – Happiness is an abstract quality.
7. Furniture – Furniture is a collective term.
8. Time – Time is a continuous concept.
9. Money – Money is not individual units.
10. Advice – “Advice” is given as a whole.
11. Information – Information is typically uncountable.
12. Love – Love is an abstract concept.
13. Sugar – Sugar is an uncountable substance.
14. Weather – Weather refers to atmospheric conditions as a whole.
15. Baggage – Baggage is collective.

Exception

We usually don’t use uncountable nouns with indefinite articles like “a” or “an” and don’t have a plural form.

Instead, they are often quantified using phrases like “some,” “a lot of,” “a bit of,” and so on.

Self exercise

Make sentences with the following nouns.

1. hair
2. ant
3. air
4. trees
5. rice
6. milk
7. salt
8. sugar
9. music
10. art
11. love
12. happiness
13. advice
14. information
15. news
16. furniture
17. luggage
18. butter
19. water
20. electricity
21. gas
22. power
23. money
24. currency

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