lunes, 18 de marzo de 2013
Things that can be counted are countable or COUNT
nouns as: Computer, printer, disk, drive, laboratory, bit, and byte.
Some things
by their very nature are uncountable. The words that name them are uncountable
or MASS nouns. They have no plurals, and they are not preceded by A/ AN as
device, help, information, Knowledge, trouble, work, water, oil, mail, money,
With countable nouns we use A FEW, MANY, AND TOO MANY:
EXAMPLES
There
are too many pupils in the lab. We cannot move
There
are many books in this box. There is no
any room for another one.
There
were a few pen drives for the practice.
With uncountable nouns
we use: A LITTLE, MUCH, TOO, MUCH.
There is
too much darkness in the office. I
can´t see anything.
You have
much money and there is a little
time to spend it.
The
motor has a little oil; it needs much to fill it up.
You
needed a little knowledge to explain the use of WIDE AREA NETWORK.
WANS
spans much physical distance.
Types of containers or units of measure are often used
with mass nouns to show amount of a substance. These measures or containers are
count nouns and can be either singular.
Three
bottles of water.
Two
pieces of paper.
One
dozen of cans with soda.
They
wasted the whole packages of soap.
I poured
only one litter of oil to the engine.
