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Guide Grammar Longman Dictionary of Comptemporary English Home My account Help Logout Dictionary Culture Thesaurus Study Centre Pronunciation Exam Practice Grammar Video Library Grammar Guide Communication Guide Intermediate Practice Advanced Practice Scores Adjectives Adverbs Nouns Verbs Prepositions Nouns Countable and uncountable nouns Countable nouns have a singular and plural form You can use them with a an and with numbers There ? s a man here to see you I ? ve just bought two T-shirts Uncountable nouns do not have a plural form You cannot use them with a an and they are followed by a singular verb ? The book contains a lot of useful information ? Don't say The book contains a lot of useful informations ? The information in this book is very useful ? Don't say The informations in this book are very useful To refer to quantity with uncountable nouns you can use a phrase with a countable noun of a piece of advice an item of clothing a sheet of paper a bar of soap a slice of cake a cup of co ?ee a packet of sugar a tube of toothpaste a litre of milk a kilo of sugar a gram of our a metre of cable Some nouns can be countable or uncountable but with a change in meaning Do you like co ?ee uncountable the drink I ? ll have a co ?ee please countable a cup of the drink She ? s very good at painting uncountable the activity It ? s one of the artist ? s best paintings countable work of art I need some writing paper uncountable the material He ? s gone out to buy a paper countable newspaper ? Nouns like these usually have more than one de ?nition in the dictionary one labelled U and the other labelled C Sometimes you can use an uncountable noun as countable usually in the plural form to talk about a particular type of something Fatty foods are bad for your health There are many di ?erent skin creams ? Nouns like these are labelled C U in the dictionary Singular and plural nouns Some nouns look like plural nouns because they end in -s but they are in fact uncountable You use a singular verb with these nouns Many of these are subjects that you can study e g business studies electronics genetics home economics linguistics Physics is my favourite subject at school http global longmandictionaries com ldoce grammar guide nouns C Guide Grammar Longman Dictionary of Comptemporary English Others are types of physical activity e g aerobics athletics gymnastics I realised that athletics was great fun There are also some names of diseases that are uncountable but end in -s e g diabetes measles mumps rabies shingles Shingles is most common in older adults You can use some nouns with a singular or plural verb depending on the meaning e g acoustics economics logistics semantics statistics ? You use a singular verb when talking about