Our Answer Key! Countable and Non-countable Nouns

 

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Warm-up 1
Find each noun and pronoun in the correct sentences below. Beneath each noun, write N and beneath each pronoun write P. If the noun is singular, write S and if it is plural, write #.

Example: We listen to music because it expresses emotions that we can’t express in words.
               P,#                N,S               P,S                    N,#           P,#                           N,#

Where the noun is a noun phrase, we show you the entire noun phrase and bold the head noun.

1. My friends (noun, singular), I (pronoun, plural), night (noun, singular). We (pronoun, plural)

2. My relatives (noun, plural), English (noun, singular), they (pronoun, plural), us (pronoun, plural).

3. Many 12- and 13-year old American children (noun, plural), small jobs (noun, plural), spending money (noun, singular).

4. Everybody (noun, singular), his own answer (noun, singular), the question (noun, singular), e justice (noun, singular), the world (noun, singular)

POWER EDIT

1. different country --> different countries
2. two sister --> two sisters
3. one of the most important industrial and trade center -- one of the most important industrial and trade centers
4. many hope and goal --> many hopes and goals
5. new ways of saving life --> new ways of saving lives
6. each children --> each child has

1) I would like to have more vocabularies.
Solution #1: I would like to have a larger vocabulary.
Solution #2: I would like to know more words.

2) I had a lot of homeworks.
Solution #1: I had a lot of homework.
Solution #2: I had a lot of homework assignments.  (Here, "homework" functions as an adjective describing the plural (count) noun "assignments".
Solution #3:  I had two hours of homework.

3) There are too many advertisings on the TV.
Solution #1: There are too many advertisements on the TV.
Solution #2: There is too much advertising on the TV.

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