Nouns

Count Nouns and Non-Count Nouns use

Nouns describe people, places and things. 

There are two types of noun> contable and noncount. They have some properties that make easy to be recognized and classified. 

Count nouns

It is possible to use numbers 

There are rules that give the plural form of the noun:

Noncount nouns

As the name says, we cannot use them with numbers. We cannot count them.

Usually we use uncount nons when we talk about

Very small things like rice. 

Gases like the oxygen

Studies

The whole of a group

Activities

Disieses

Abstract ideas

But how do you know if a noun is contable or uncontable?

First, the dictionary helps us to determine if the noun is contable or not. 

Second, uncontable nouns do not use plural forms. For instance, we cannot say "the rices".