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thus
water is noncount while
river and
lake are count. There is also a tendency for
count nouns to refer to concrete things (which we can see or feel), and noncount
nouns to be abstract, but there are exceptions:
abstract count nouns:
idea, statement, thought, description
concrete noncount nouns:
bread, butter, milk, money, sugar
And some nouns are unexpectedly noncount, for example
advice and
information.
This even applies to concrete nouns such as
furniture; there is no plural ‘furnitures’
(see D2)
. Where it is necessary to count such noncount nouns, counting expressions
can be used, for example,
a piece of advice,
a loaf of bread, two items of furniture.
Work out whether these nouns are count or noncount:
accident,
dream,
equipment,
homework,
ice,
journey,
programme,
progress,
travel
There are many nouns in English which can be both count and noncount. Section C2
deals with this.
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