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hello I'm Emma
from English in this lesson we're
focusing on English nouns why because so
many of the mistakes that you're making
in English are related to the way that
you use nouns starting from the top
there are two types of English now
countable and uncountable English nouns
now you might be thinking yeah yeah yeah
yeah whatever it doesn't really matter
but actually it does matter it really
really does for a whole lot of reasons
like how to use articles correctly how
to use much and many so and such some
and any or a little and a few these
words all depend on the type of noun and
learning and understanding more about
countable and uncountable nouns and how
they use differently will dramatically
improve your English grammar I guarantee
you that some of the mistakes that
you're making in English are because you
are treating an uncountable noun like a
countable noun or a countable noun like
an uncountable noun now I've made a
cheat sheet to help you understand these
rules and I'm going to tell you how to
download it at the end of this lesson
in this video we're focusing on
uncountable nouns but you can check out
another video on countable nouns right
there okay so the kitchen is a great
place to start talking about countable
and uncountable nouns it's been a while
since mmm has been in the kitchen so I'm
very excited
here the easiest way to remember
uncountable nouns is to think about
nouns that are difficult to count things
like liquids water or wine gases the air
or powders like flour or things like
electricity money or abstract nouns like
happiness motivation and luck now all of
these nouns
if you think about it are difficult to
count uncountable nouns have only one
form they can't be plural
you can't use a or m with uncountable
nouns because they can't be counted you
can't use numbers with them at all we
can't say I need a milk or give me 3
money but you can use some with
uncountable nouns and that just means an
amount but not a specific amount can you
get some rice from the supermarket for
me we can also use uncountable nouns
without some can you get rice from the
supermarket for me perfectly okay as
well for example to make pancakes I need
to make I need to have some flour I need
to have some sugar some water and maybe
even some maple syrup all of these nouns
are uncountable but we do need a way to
quantify these nouns especially when
you're cooking in the kitchen we need to
know how much to you and that's easy to
do when you're talking about countable
nouns like a lemon or an apple but with
uncountable nouns
you need another countable noun to help
you quantify your uncountable noun up
packet of rice a cup of oil a can of
coconut milk 2 liters of water for
example and all of a sudden all of these
things can become countable notice how I
was using an article with all of those
nouns now this is all great in the
kitchen but what about outside of the
kitchen with nouns like information or a
happiness or money luggage advice it's
the same idea a piece of information a
moment of happiness a bit of luck or a
bit of money two pieces of luggage or
I've got three pieces of advice for you
let's recap on uncountable nouns for a
moment they have only one form
they're never plural you can't use
articles like R or an with them and you
can't use numbers you can't say an
information or two luggages or three
advices okay fabulous don't forget that
you can download this worksheet to help
you practice using uncountable nouns
correctly now there are some uncountable
nouns that you see being used as rule
noun each but before you freak out these
exceptions are related to the context
and just for a moment this is going to
get a little bit confusing but be
patient stay calm I'm going to help you
to understand right now let's use coffee
as an example I've got some instant
coffee here some coffee beans and of
course at the
lishus cup of coffee now the liquid is
uncountable and so is the powder that's
in instant coffee now you can count the
beans but that's less common so we need
some other countable nouns to tell us
some more information about the noun a
jar a packet or a kilogram a cup but you
might hear someone say I'll have a
coffee with two sugars please huh coffee
and sugar are both uncountable how can
that be well simply the context will
tell us that it means a cup of coffee
and two teaspoons of sugar the same if
someone's head we'll take three waters
it means three bottles of water or three
glasses of water so how do you know if a
noun is countable or uncountable it's
easy in the dictionary when you look up
this word you'll see au or a C next to
that mound it will tell you if it's
countable or uncountable and instantly
you'll know how you can use this noun
especially once you download the
worksheet that's going to help you it's
really important because remember
there's lots of different words that you
can use in English with uncountable
nouns that you can't use with countable
nouns there's a little water in my cup
there's a few waters in my cup
there's too much information there's too
many informations so it's really
important that you're using the correct
English word with these now now before I
finish I want to tell you some of the
biggest mistakes that I see with
uncountable nouns in English advice
knowledge information news luggage
equipment and furniture these are all
uncountable now they have only one form
so that's it for this lesson I hope that
you're feeling a little more confident
with uncountable nouns now remember that
you can watch the countable nouns lesson
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that's it for now but I will see you
again very soon bye