Count and Noncount Nouns

Count and Noncount Nouns

By Wendy Payne Lift Foundations

​A count noun is a noun in which you can add a number to the front of it and add an s at the end of it.

• ​cake/cakes

  • ​She baked a cake.

  • ​She baked five cakes.

A non-count noun is a noun that only has a single form.

You cannot add an s to the end of a non-count noun.

• music

• advice

• rice

Noncount nouns can be categorized into the following categories:

​Liquids and Gases:	​Food:
​air, water, coffe, tea, milk, smoke	​fruit, cheese, bread, rice

​Feelings and Knowledge:	​Nature:
​intelligence, love, hate, news, information	​land, wind, fog, lightening, rain

Identify the nouns as count or non-count.

Multiple Choice

computer

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

snow

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

snowflake

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

pile

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

chess

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

club

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

blood

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

smoke

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

bag

• count

• non-count

Multiple Choice

furniture

• count

• non-count