Common Uncountable Nouns
advice cabbage change (money) chocolate corn equipment fruit furniture |
garbage information jewelry luggage meat merchandise money music |
news rice soap water weather wood work |
Uncountable Noun Classification
Abstract Ideas | Liquids | Solids |
anger justice knowledge wealth love hate honesty patience beauty employment work fun insurance |
milk oil wine coffee gasoline honey lotion blood |
bread meat spaghetti pasta butter margarine ice-cream |
Gases | Grains / Powders | Materials |
air oxygen hydrogen smoke pollution smog steam |
rice cereal flour wheat corn sugar salt pepper dust |
cotton wool silk glass gold silver copper iron coal wood chalk |
Categories | Field of Study | Weather |
mail jewelry money furniture food fruit clothing luggage transportation junk stuff trash |
biology linguistics engineering mathematics statistics physics |
rain snow sleet hail ice wind fog thunder lightning sunshine |
Languages | ||
English Spanish Chinese French |
Motifications for Count and Noncount Nouns
Unit Nouns for Uncountable Nouns | For Countable Nouns | For uncountable nouns |
a bottle of water a jar of mustard a can of soup a bar of chocolate a cake of soap an ear of corn a tube of toothpaste an article of clothing an item of news a bowl of rice a piece/sheet of paper |
many some a lot of a few |
much some a lot of a little an amount of a great deal of |