- I know the importance of learning English.
- Please check your baggage at the counter.
- The fog became very thick.
- The following words are non-countable nouns (abstract nouns)
- advice, afterthought, anger, art, beauty, behavior,
childhood, confidence, courage, democracy,
education, energy, enjoyment, entertainment,
friendship, fun, grammar, hate, hatred, happiness, health,
help, history, homework, honesty, importance, information,
insurance, intelligence, justice, knowledge,
laughter, law, love, luck, music, news, noise,
patience, peace, permission, politics,
practice, pride, progress, proof,
schizophrenia, secrecy, slang, sleep, time, unemployment, violence, vocabulary, wealth,
work
- The following words are non-countable nouns (mass noun)
- baggage, cash, change (money), clothing, equipment, furniture, garbage, homework, jewelry, junk, luggage,
machinery, mail, make-up, money, postage, silverware, stuff,
trash, vocabulary
- The following words are non-countable nouns (liquid
substances)
- beer, cream, gasoline, honey, juice, ketchup,
lotion, milk, oil, salad dressing, sauce, shampoo, soda,
soup, syrup, tea, vinegar, water, wine
- Note: liquid substances are
non-countable nouns but can be counted with an
appropriate unit of measure
- ie: glasses of milk
- The following words are non-countable nouns (solid
substances)
- bacon, beef, broccoli, butter, celery, chalk, chicken (meat), chocolate,
corn, cotton, detergent, dirt, dust, film, fish, flour,
food, garlic, glass, gold, grass, hair, hamburger (meat),
ice, lettuce, meat, paper, pepper,
pork, rice, salt, sand, seafood, silver, spaghetti, spinach,
soap, sugar, toothpaste, wheat, wood, yogurt
- Note: solid substances are
non-countable nouns but can be counted with an
appropriate unit of measure
- ie: spoonfuls of rice
- The following words are non-countable nouns (natural and
physical environment)
- 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
- The following words are non-countable nouns (activities)
- 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
- The following words are non-countable nouns (school majors)
- 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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