Learn English countable nouns in English grammar - Countable nouns meaning

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a noun is a part of speech so like a verb or an  adjective like this a noun is a part of speech in  
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uh every language so a noun is a word that  is used to reference or refer to a thing  
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like the word book pencil cup tree a  person like teacher sarah you right  
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um my friend my uh teacher my doctor and so on  those are all nouns animals cat dog horse chicken  
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places place names like new york or places like  house um supermarket and so on qualities like  
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softness or happiness are nouns ideas like the  word justice or some actions like uh yodeling or  
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running things like this that may look like verbs  but we can also use them as nouns in sentences for  
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example if i say i like running in that sentence  running would be a noun so this is something we've  
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talked about before house actions can be nouns  but usually in english we say a noun is a person  
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place or thing and or an animal so let's keep  that in mind as we move forward what is a noun  
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so nouns can be countable or uncountable so let's  take a look uh what does it mean to count counting  
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of course is uh when we see how many of something  there are one two three four five this is counting  
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there are some things we can count and some  things some nouns that we cannot count so  
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let's go ahead and go through and see these here  we have six nouns so can we count these things  
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uh we went through that teacher  is countable rain is uncountable  
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restaurant is countable homework uncountable right  we cannot count computer now can we count computer  
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can i say i have 10 computers and 11 computers yes  computer is a countable noun last we have equality  
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happiness this is a noun right something uh you  can have so can i say that i have 10 happinesses  
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no so here we see the difference between nouns  that we can count and nouns we cannot count so  
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let's go ahead and talk about these bit by bit  so first let's take a little bit of a closer look  
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at countable nouns so as i mentioned countable  nouns are nouns that can be counted like  
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teacher restaurant or computer so here's  a tip how can you know a noun is countable
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countable nouns usually become plural  by adding s so if you don't know  
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what does this word mean plural plural is  when we have more than one of something so  
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if i have one cup that is singular because there  is one plural i have two cups more than one right  
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so countable nouns like cup usually become plural  by adding s so for example teacher would become  
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teachers restaurants computers this is one tip  for if we know that nouns are countable now not  
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every countable noun can we add s to for example  the word man is a countable noun but we don't say  
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man's we say men right so countable nouns usually  become plural by adding s but remember uh in in  
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a case like this word man men person people woman  woman uh women then you cannot add s it just means  
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uh it's a tip you can look for so with countable  nouns and uncountable nouns there are some words  
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we can use before with countable nouns and some  that we can only use with uncountable nouns  
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uh for example as we saw on the last slide  i cannot use a word like a number with an  
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uncountable noun i cannot say i have 10 rain  right i can't use numbers so there are different  
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quantifiers or words that describe how much  of something i can use with countable nouns  
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versus uncountable nouns so for example  with countable nouns things we can count  
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i can use the words a and in the a restaurant the  computer i can use numbers like one two or three  
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one teacher two restaurants three computers i  can use words like a few few and fewer there  
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are a few restaurants in this city there are  fewer restaurants in that town over there  
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i can use the words a lot many and several  there are many computers in the computer lab  
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several teachers are going on vacation next  week i can also use these words all some  
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any lots of plenty of and enough so these  we can actually use with both countable and  
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uncountable nouns so they're good words to  use in any case some teachers uh teach math  
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lots of restaurants around here are busy today  and there are enough computers for everyone to use  
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so here we have a quick list of the  quantifiers we can use with countable nouns  
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so let's take a look at how we use these in  a sentence so with countable nouns we use the  
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question how many so remember many is a word we  can only use with countable nouns so it also is  
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our question how many so we're going to look  at some different examples of sentences using  
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how many countable and uncountable nouns  so let's begin here we have the question  
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how many restaurants are there we could  also ask are there many restaurants  
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and to answer how many restaurants  are there there are three restaurants  
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are there many yes there are a few so here we  see the two basic question forms we can use with  
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countable nouns how many or are there many there  are three there are a few there are some right
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number two how many apartment buildings are  there or are there many apartment buildings  
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so how many sorry guys where's my there  we go uh how many are there there are  
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10 apartment buildings are there many yes there  are a lot okay let's take a look at number three  
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how many or are there many here we're looking at  swimming pools how many swimming pools are there  
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there is one are there many now let's see what  happens when we are saying no no there aren't many  
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there are not many there are just a few so  what are we noticing here often when we ask  
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how many we want a specific number there  are three there are ten there is one  
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and if we're asking are there many often  we use words like a few a lot or not many  
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okay let's take a look at one more example how  many schools are here or are there many schools  
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so this is a uh an example of when we don't have  to use a number we can also answer there are a lot  
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of schools here or yes there are a lot of schools  so remember with countable nouns we use how many  
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and to quantify the quantifiers before  our nouns we can use numbers like 3  
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10 and 1 or words like a few a lot and many  so make sure you can rewind look at that list
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