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Problems with Nouns : 

Problems with Nouns Singular or Plural????

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Introduction Problems with Nouns Look at the sentences below. What’s wrong? Move your mouse over each sentence to see the answer. 1. I have three bedroom in my house. 2. There are many milks in the refrigerator. 3. Those chair are in the wrong room. 4. There are five reds cars. 5. Some of the class are at night. 6. Your childs are beautiful. 7. Would you like a few milk? “Bedrooms” should be plural because the sentence says there are three. The word “milks” is incorrect, because it is a non-count noun and cannot have an –s.

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Guideline #1 Count and Non-Count Nouns In English, we have countable and non-countable nouns. Some examples of countable and non-countable nouns are below. Countable Nouns Non-Countable Nouns chair student day song computer room love money weather food fruit furniture More Non-Countable Nouns

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Guideline #2 Countable Nouns Countable nouns can have singular and plural forms and can be counted numerically. Most countable nouns can be made plural by adding –s or –es. book books 3 books box boxes 2 boxes

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Guideline #3 Non-Countable Nouns Non-countable nouns have only one form and can’t be counted numerically. Look at the examples below. monies money one money money healths health two health health

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Guideline #4 Non-Countable Nouns Non-countable nouns cannot take the plural –s or –es or an article (a, an). a furniture furniture furnitures furniture a news news newses news

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Guideline #5 Irregular Plural Nouns Some nouns have an irregular plural form. Look at the examples below. child childs children woman womans women Click here to see a list of irregular plural nouns.

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Guideline #6 Noun Quantifiers Words like, a few, a little, much, any, some, and many are used differently depending on whether the noun in the sentence is count or non-count. a few count nouns a few bananas a little non-count nouns a little flour

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(Continued) Noun Quantifiers many count nouns many chairs much non-count nouns much furniture some non-count nouns some furniture count nouns some chairs

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(Continued) Noun Quantifiers Any is used in negative sentences with count and non-count nouns. Notice the difference in plural and singular verbs. any count nouns There aren’t any chairs. any non-count nouns There isn’t any furniture.

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Guideline #7 Agreement with Demonstrative Adjectives Remember to make demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those) agree with the nouns they modify. singular these room plural these rooms this rooms this room

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Guideline #8 Nouns and “of phrases” A countable noun is always plural after an “of phrase” that shows quantity. A non-count noun is always singular after an “of phrase.” “of phrases” Some of the chairs are broken. Some of the furniture is broken. plural singular

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Guideline #9 Adjectives Adjectives are never plural. Those are beautifuls houses. beautiful That is an olds book. old

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Appendix Irregular Plural Nouns woman  women deer  deer man  men calf  calves child  children wife  wives ox  oxen life  lives foot  feet half  halves tooth  teeth knife  knives goose  geese self  selves mouse  mice wolf  wolves louse  lice thief  thieves sheep  sheep leaf  leaves fish  fish shelf  shelves

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Appendix Non-Countable Nouns accommodation coal garbage leisure vocabulary advice conduct gossip lightning wealth anger countryside grass luck weather applause courage hair luggage work assistance damage happiness machinery violence baggage dancing harm meat underwear behavior furniture help money travel bread dirt homework mud traffic cardboard education hospitality music cash evidence housework news chaos flu information patience chess food jewelry poetry china fruit knowledge scenery clothing fun laughter soap spelling strength stuff thunder

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Appendix “of phrases” Some of the… A little of the… Many of the… Much of the… A number of the… A lot of the… One of the… Most of the… Half of the… A few of the…