Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
English 4 - Coggle Diagram
English 4
Non-count Nouns
-
-
-
-
have a collective meaning (for example, furniture).
-
these, and those have been included because, like the, they mark the noun that they modify
as definite, which means that the noun refers 1) to a unique individual or 2) to some person,
event, or object known to both the writer and reader from their general knowledge or from
-
Quantifiers - Some rules of thumb on the use of little, a little, few and a few
Little: only used with uncountable nouns, synonym for hardly any, not much
A little: only used with uncountable nouns, synonym for a small amount, some.
Few: with countable nouns, synonym for hardly any, not many
A few: with countable nouns, synonym for a small number, some
Food
Count Nouns
Nouns refer to things that exist as separate and distinct individual units. They
usually refer to what can be perceived by the senses.
-
An Exception to the Rule
For a number of nouns, the rule needs slight revision. Certain nouns in English belong
to both classes: they have both a non-count and a count meaning. Normally the noncount meaning is abstract and general and the count meaning concrete and specific.