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I know the importance of learning English.
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I would like the opportunity to study
abroad.
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Please check your baggage at the counter.
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Coffee smells best in the morning.
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She usually eats a lot of ice cream during
the summer.
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The fog became very thick.
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The following words are non-countable nouns (abstract nouns)
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advice, afterthought, anger, art, beauty, behavior,
business, childhood, confidence, courage, crime, democracy,
education, energy, enjoyment, entertainment, freedom,
friendship, fun, grammar, hate, hatred, happiness, health,
help, history, homework, honesty, importance, information,
insurance, intelligence, interest, justice, knowledge,
laughter, law, life, love, luck, music, news, noise,
opportunity, patience, peace, permission, politics,
practice, pride, progress, proof, responsibility,
schizophrenia, secrecy, slang, sleep, time, traffic, travel,
trouble, truth, unemployment, violence, vocabulary, wealth,
work
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The following words are non-countable nouns (mass nouns)
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baggage, cash, change (money), clothing, equipment, food,
fruit, furniture, garbage, homework, jewelry, junk, luggage,
machinery, mail, make-up, money, postage, silverware, stuff,
traffic, trash, vocabulary
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The following words are non-countable nouns (liquid
substances)
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beer, coffee, cream, gasoline, honey, juice, ketchup,
lotion, milk, oil, salad dressing, sauce, shampoo, soda,
soup, syrup, tea, vinegar, water, wine
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The following words are non-countable nouns (solid
substances)
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bacon, beef, bread, broccoli, butter, cabbage, cake, candy,
cereal, celery, chalk, cheese, chicken (meat), chocolate,
corn, cotton, detergent, dirt, dust, film, fish, flour,
food, garlic, glass, gold, grass, hair, hamburger (meat),
ice, ice cream, lettuce, meat, paper, pasta, pepper, pizza,
pork, rice, salt, sand, seafood, silver, spaghetti, spinach,
soap, sugar, toothpaste, wheat, wood, yogurt
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The following words are non-countable nouns (natural and
physical environment)
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air, carbon dioxide, cold, darkness, electricity, fire, fog,
heat, humidity, light, lightning, mist, oxygen, rain,
scenery, smog, smoke, snow, sunshine, temperature, thunder,
warmth, weather, wind
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The following words are non-countable nouns (activities)
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athletics, badminton, baseball, basketball, billiards,
bowling, boxing, camping, cards, chess, conversation,
cooking, cycling, dancing, darts (game), driving, football,
golf, gymnastics, hiking, jogging, poker, reading, running,
sailing, singing, soccer, shopping, slating, skiing,
studying swimming, surfing, tennis, traveling, volleyball,
walking, wrestling
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The following words are non-countable nouns (school majors)
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accounting, art, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry,
civics, economics, engineering, geography, geometry,
history, journalism, linguistics, literature, mathematics,
music, nutrition, physics, psychology, science, sociology,
speech, writing
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