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1. Common nouns are divided into countable, example: university, book and uncountable, example: snow, beauty. Countable nouns include the names of objects and persons that can be counted, therefore they are used in both singular and plural: a room – two rooms, an engineer\u2013 many engineers. Countable nouns are used in the singular with the indefinite article \u201ca\/an\u201d; combined with numerals or with words denoting quantity: many, some, several, a few, few. Example: many cities, some journals, several enterprises, a few hotels, few friends.<\/p>\n

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2. Uncountable nouns include the names of objects that cannot be counted. They are used only in the singular:
\n\u0430) nouns of material: steel, oil, \u0441offee;
\n\u0431) abstract nouns, denoting states, actions, sciences, processes, etc.: freedom, labour, mathematics etc.<\/p>\n\n

Uncountable nouns, without having a plural form, cannot be combined with the definite article or with numerals. They can be used with words: much, some, little, a little. Example: much information, some juice, little time.<\/p>\n

Both countable and uncountable nouns are used with words a lot of \/lots of and plenty of. Example: a lot of subjects (a lot of work), plenty of ideas (plenty of money).<\/p>\n

Examples of uncountable nouns:
\nFood: bread, butter, meat, cheese, water, tea, coffee, milk, wine, beer, lemonade, chocolate, salt, pepper, fish, etc.
\nMaterial: paper, wood, stone, glass, chalk, silver, gold, iron, silk, cotton, wool, etc.
\nAbstract nouns: peace, love, beauty, work, sleep, courage, honesty, youth, excitement, anger, trouble, darkness, history, physics, music, etc.
\nMany others: time,work, money, furniture, police, information, news, progress, baggage (luggage), advice, accommodation, scenery, weather, snow, rain, soap, petrol, oil, traffic, travel, etc.<\/p>\n

3. Some material nouns can be used to designate objects made of a given substance or material; in this case they become countable nouns, for example:
\nPaper
\nI bought some paper. (uncountable = material)
\nI bought a paper. (countable = a newspaper)
\nHair
\nShe has beautiful hair. (uncountable)
\nThere is a hair in my soup. (countable = one single hair)
\nOur house is built of brick.
\n\u041de carried two bricks in each hand.<\/p>\n

Real nouns can be used, as in the Russian language, to designate different varieties and types of substance and then they turn into countable nouns, for example:
\nwine \u2013 wines; fruit \u2013 fruits; glass \u2013 glasses; ice – ices
\nHe prefers Caucasian wines to Crimean ones.<\/p>\n

4. Abstract nouns become countable nouns when they are instantiated, e.g.: speech \u2013 speeches; amusement \u2013 amusements
\nHis speeches are always interesting.
\nAnimals do not possess the power of speech.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1. Common nouns are divided into countable, example: university, book and uncountable, example: snow, beauty. Countable nouns include the names of objects and persons that can be counted, therefore they are used in both singular and plural: a room – two rooms, an engineer\u2013 many engineers. Countable nouns are used in the singular with the indefinite article \u201ca\/an\u201d; combined with numerals or with words denoting quantity: many, some, several, a few, few. Example: many cities, some journals, several enterprises, a few hotels, few friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[53,54,42,56,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-156","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-angliiskii","8":"category-inostrannyi","9":"tag-common-nouns","10":"tag-countable","11":"tag-noun","12":"tag-real","13":"tag-uncountable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planeta21vek.ru\/elina732\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}