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Sentences with countable nouns. Countable nouns are found in singular and plural forms. These are the name of things that we can count. There were ten chairs in the room.; Tom came across a wonderful idea.A count noun (also countable noun) is a noun that can be modified by a numeral ( three chairs) and that occurs in both singular and plural forms ( chair, chairs ). The can also be preceded by words such as a, an, or the ( a chair ). Quite literally, count nouns are nouns which can be counted.
Countable nouns are individual objects, people, places and things that can be counted. For example, books, houses, Americans, cats, dogs, cars, etc. A countable noun can be singular (a book) or plural (two book s) The singular form of a verb is used with a singular countable noun : the apple is red. The plural form of a verb is used with a
1.Countable nouns carry a/ an article with them. Countable noun के साथ ‘a/an’ लगेगा।. For example- A carrot ( गाजर ), a basket ( टोकरी ), a car ( गाड़ी ), an apple ( सेब ), an idea ( विचार ). 2. When more than 1, a countable noun is used in the plural form.Nouns that are both countable and uncountable. Some nouns can be both countable and uncountable, but they have a different meaning. beer = kind of drink, beers = glasses of beer. chicken = kind of meat, chickens = animals. chocolate = kind of food, chocolates = small sweets in a box of chocolates. coffee = kind of drink, coffees = cups of coffee.Whether money is a count or a noun-count noun depends on the context. Most of the time, it's a collective singular noun that never takes a plural. When talking about different sources of revenue, however, the plural form, monies, as can be seen in these links to examples of "the monies" in Google Books and to this Google Ngram showing that the plural form has been used for more than 200 years An Interesting Point about Abstract Nouns Many creative writers (particularly poets), consider abstract nouns "the enemy." Even though abstract nouns cover many of the topics that poets like to address (e.g., love, loss, sadness, loneliness), poets know that using abstract nouns (e.g., I was in love; she felt loneliness) tells their readers little.
50 Examples of collective nouns A class of students A cloud of dust A cluster of coconuts A colony of badgers A company of actors A hand of bananas A harvest of wheat A heap of rubbish A hedge of bushes A library of books A pack of cards A packet of letters A pair of shoes A party of friends A ream of paper A reel of film A set of clubs A sheaf of grain A stack of wood A string of horses A
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