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Count Nouns Using A or An with Count Nouns • What is a count noun? •A count noun is a noun that we can count. It has a singular form and a plural form. • If you have a singular count noun, use A or AN in front of the noun when it is general. EX: A book, A pen, A desk, AN apple, An orange, An umbrella, An elephant, A bicycle, A basketball. Since it is a single apple, and it has a vowel sound, we use AN before We have more than one apple here. The plural form is apples.

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Count NounsUsing A or An with Count Nouns

• What is a count noun?• A count noun is a noun that we can count. It

has a singular form and a plural form.• If you have a singular count noun, use A or AN

in front of the noun when it is general.• EX: A book, A pen, A desk, AN apple, An orange, An umbrella, An

elephant, A bicycle, A basketball.

Since it is a single apple, and it has a vowel sound, we use AN before apple= AN APPLE

We have more than one apple here. The plural form is apples.

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Count Noun Examples

A building

Buildings

A leaf

Leaves

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Count Noun Examples

A man

Men

The singular count nouns are preceded by the appropriate use of A or An.

A Car

Cars

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Non-Count Nouns• A non-count noun is a noun that we do not count. It

does not have a plural form.• We use quantifiers before non-count nouns: a bottle

of milk, and if we have two or more, we say bottles of milk.

• Ex: fruit, some fruit; bread, a slice of bread; homework; a lot of homework; information, a little information, money, milk, juice, water, bread, honesty, happiness

Milk is a non-count noun. We do not count milk because milk does not have a singular or a plural form. If you have milk in a bottles, you

must write a bottle, two bottles or three bottles—depending on the number of bottles.

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Noun –Count Examples

• Money is a non-count because it has only ONE form.

• We cannot say moneys. This is wrong.

• What are quantifiers?• A quantifier is a word or phrase which is used before a noun to

indicate the amount or quantity.• Examples: We can use quantifiers to talk about money: One dollar,

two dollars, three dollars, four dollars. • One Ice cube, two ice cubes, three ice cubes…

ONE Ice cubeOne is a quantifier.

TWO Ice cubes