Non-count nouns

Today, we talked about non-count nouns.  Non-count nouns don't have a singular (1) and plural (2+) form.  They are hard to count.  They include liquids (water, milk, coffee, wine...), particular substances (sand, salt, pepper, sugar, flour), gasses (air, smoke, oxygen...) and groups that contain unlike things (fruit, money, furniture...)

Non-count nouns take singular forms of verbs, but use "some" -- There's some money in his wallet.  There's some juice in the refrigerator.

Use "much" with non-count nouns, but "many" with count nouns.  There isn't much time, but there are many people.

Use "a little" with non-count nouns, but "a few" with count nouns.  There's a little milk.  There are a few bananas.


Click Here to Memorize Some Non-Count "uncountable" nouns

Crazy facts in American English:

Vegetables are count, but fruit is non-count.  (Only the word "fruit"--bananas, apples, oranges, kiwi, pears etc. are count)
Money is non-count, but stars are count.
Beans are count, but rice is non-count.