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Upper-intermediate review - Coggle Diagram
Upper-intermediate review
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6
Unit 7
Unit 8
Unit 9
9B. Uncountable nouns and plural nouns
UNCOUNTABLE
always uncountable
: Accommodation; behavior; health; politics (and other words ending in -ics. athetics, economics), progress, rubbish, scenery, traffic, weather, work.
don't have plural form, and they use a singular verb. - don't use "a/an" with uncountable nouns.
Also uncountable
: advice, bread, equipment, furniture, homework, information, luck, luggage, news, research, toast. With these, you can use a " piece of" to talk about an individual item.
Some nouns can be either countable (c) or uncountable (u), but the meaning changes: glass (c) vaso; glass(u) vidrio. other examples: business, iron, light, paper, space, time.
PLURAL AND COLLECTIVE NOUNS
Plural nouns with no singular. They need a plural verb, and they can be used with "a/an" arms, guns, belongings, manners, outskirts, scissors, and trousers /shorts.
If the word refers to something with two parts. e.g: scissors, shorts, trousers, etc. it can be used with a pair of or some.
Collective nouns:
crew, family, government,
police,
staff, team, etc. this can be used with singular or plural. But
police
is always with plural.
Unit 10
10 A. Quantifiers
All, every most
No, none, any
both, neither, either
10B. Articles