ENGLISH ESL COUNTABLE VS UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Sustantivos contable vs no contables

1. Countable
&
Uncountable nouns

3. Countable nouns–
e.g. I eat a bananaevery day.
I like bananas.
“Banana”is a countablenoun.
We can put an ‘s’ on a countable
noun: „Bananas”

4. A countable noun can be
1. singular(banana) or
Countable nounsare things we can
count.
We can say ‘one banana’,‘two
bananas’ etc.
Countable nouns
2. plural(bananas)

5. Countable nouns
Examples of countable nouns
singular plural
apple apples
pineapple pineapples
cucumber cucumbers
strawberry strawberries
grape grapes

6. Countable nouns
We add -esto most nouns in -o:
tomato tomatoes
potato potatoes
But we just add -sto:
radio radios
photo photos

8. Uncountable nouns
e.g. I eat riceeveryday.
I like rice.
Riceis an uncountable noun.

9. Uncountable nouns
An uncountable noun has only one form.
(rice)
•Uncountable nouns are things we can’t
count.
•We can’tput an ‘s’ on an uncountable
noun.
•We can’tsay ‘one rice’, ‘two rices’, etc.

10. Uncountable nouns
We can classify them into:
•Grains.-rice, flour, wheat, oatmeal,
salt, sugar, etc
•Liquid.-Water, soda, tea, coffee,etc
•Meat.-beef, pork, chicken, fish
•Cream.-ice-cream, jam, etc

11. Practicing
with nouns