Thursday, November 23, 2017

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Can you pick up one word among 23 nouns in terms of grammar?

advice / air / bookstore / bread / cheese / coffee / food / fruit / furniture / happiness / information / jam / marmalade / money / news / oil / paper / peace / sugar / tea / water / wood / yogurt

“bookstore” is the only word you can count among this list.

You can count countable nouns. You cannot count uncountable nouns.
To explain this, the textbook has example sentences:
There is a bookstore around the corner.
There are two bookstores there.
Which do you like better, jam or marmalade?

If you need to count “coffee”, you can say “a cup of coffee”.
“many” is used with countable nouns and “much” is used with uncountable nouns.
“a lot of” can be used with both types of nouns.

Look at the picture I took at a cafe. Towns also have English examples:
a cup of happiness
a lot of happiness
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