Structure: Countable and Uncountable Nouns I

You already know that a noun is a name we give to a person, animal, place, thing, idea, quality, or action. Accordingly, the following are nouns:

What are Countable and Uncountable Nouns?

Countable nouns are simply defined as those nouns we can count while uncountable nouns are those nouns we cannot count.

Consider the following examples;

Characteristics of Countable and Uncountable Nouns:

Countable nouns can collocate with the indefinite articles a or an .

Examples:

a book, a village, an orange, an egg.

Uncountable nouns, however,