Mass/Count Nouns

Mass nouns are also known as uncountable nouns. These are the nouns that you cannot count individually.

• Yes, this is correct.

• No, this is incorrect.

Count Nouns are also known as countable nouns. These are the nouns that you can count.

• Yes, yes, yo!

• Oh, no, no, no!

Teacher Gemma is making a nice hot bowl of porridge for her breakfast.

Porridge is a:

• mass noun

• count noun

Cottage cheese, known in the Philippines as kesong puti, is great on warm toast.

Cottage cheese is an example of a:

• mass noun/uncountable noun

• count noun/countable noun

Perhaps, one of my favorite breakfast food would be pancakes. I can have up to four when I'm hungry.

Are pancakes count nouns or mass nouns?

• Mass /uncountable nouns

• Count /countable nouns

"An apple a day keeps the doctor away."

But you can also have an orange, it's full of vitamin C.

Apples and oranges are both examples of ________.

• Mass / Uncountable nouns

• Count / Countable nouns

A Black Forest cake has cherries on top of it. This one here has quite a lot of cherries on it.

Cherry, is this a count noun or a mass noun?

• Mass / Uncountable Noun

• Count / Countable Noun

Always remember to drink at least eight glasses of water a day, particularly after eating something sweet like a slice of cake.

The underlined word is a:

• count / countable noun

• mass / uncountable noun

Ketchup, mayonnaise, and mustard are condiments.

• All three (ketchup, mayo, and mustard) are count/countable nouns.

• All three (ketchup, mayo, and mustard) are mass/uncountable nouns.

Eggs are ________ nouns.

How do you like your eggs?

Sunnyside up, scrambled, poached, or boiled?

• mass / uncountable

• count / countable