บทเรียน 3: Can't buy me love
Quantifiers: all, each, every, both, either, neither
เลือกบทเรียน
- 1Pop-ups
- 2Hidden talents
- 3Can't buy me love
- 4Travellers' tales
- 5The colleague from hell
- 6Jurassic mystery: unpacking the past
- 7Career changes
- 8Art
- 9Project management
- 10The dog ate my homework!
- 11The diary of a double agent
- 12Fashion forward
- 13Flat pack skyscrapers
- 14Extreme sports
- 15Food fads
- 16Me, my selfie and I
- 17Endangered animals
- 18A nip and a tuck: cosmetic surgery
- 19I'm really sorry...
- 20Telling stories
- 21Fakes and phrasals
- 22Looking to the future
- 23Becoming familiar with things
- 24From rags to riches
- 25Against the odds
- 26Our future on Mars?
- 27Where is it illegal to get a fish drunk?
- 28Dodgy dating
- 29Annoying advice
- 30I'll have been studying English for thirty weeks
บทเรียนย่อย 1
Where do you get advice before you travel? How much baggage do you usually take? In this session you'll find out the link between words like advice and baggage along with a lot more uncountable nouns.
คะแนนจากบทเรียนย่อย 1
0 / 14
- 0 / 0แบบฝึกหัด 1
- 0 / 8แบบฝึกหัด 2
- 0 / 6แบบฝึกหัด 3
แบบฝึกหัด 3
A piece of furniture, a glass of water
Can you spot the mistakes?
So you've seen and heard that indefinite articles don't go in front of uncountable nouns. We don't say 'a salt' or 'an information' in English. Remember that we don't put an -s at the end of uncountable nouns to make them plural, but there some that already have an -s at the end - so be careful! We also heard that we can use phrases like a piece of with uncountable nouns.
Here's an explanation about a piece of and some more phrases you can use with some food and drink uncountable nouns.
อ่านเนื้อหาพร้อมทำแบบฝีกหัด
A piece of...
In 6 Minute Vocabulary we learned that we can use a piece of with uncountable nouns like information, advice and research. We can also use a piece of with uncountable nouns for materials.
Can I have a piece of paper, please?
You need four pieces of wood to make this bookcase.
Words for containers
When we talk about food and drink, we use uncountable nouns like rice, fruit and water. We don't use indefinite articles like a or an with these nouns, but when we want to talk about the containers of these food and drink items we can use the indefinite article.
Liquids
Would you like a glass of water?
A large cup of tea, please.
Every morning I need to have a mug of coffee - otherwise I can't function properly.
There's a jug of milk on each table.
Food
Remember to pick up a bag of sugar from the shop.
I've got three packets of salt and a box of cereal - is that enough?
To do
Time to put your uncountable noun knowledge to the test! Try this quiz and see if you can spot the mistakes.
Spot the uncountable mistakes
6 Questions
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
It's a group nounช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
Remember that some food words are uncountableช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
Remember 'piece' is a countable nounช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
'Homework' is an uncountable nounช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
'Water' is an uncountable noun and needs a special phrase with itช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
'Flour' is a substance and a food wordQuestion 1 of 6
Correct sentence
Incorrect sentence
Excellent!เยี่ยม!แย่หน่อย!คุณทำคะแนนได้:
Spot the uncountable mistakes
6 Questions
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
It's a group nounQuestion 1 of 6
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
Remember that some food words are uncountableQuestion 2 of 6
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
Remember 'piece' is a countable nounQuestion 3 of 6
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
'Homework' is an uncountable nounQuestion 4 of 6
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
'Water' is an uncountable noun and needs a special phrase with itQuestion 5 of 6
ช่วยเหลือ
แบบฝึกหัด
Do these sentences have any mistakes with their uncountable nouns? Remember to think about the nouns - are they activity words, information words or group nouns? Is there a phrase like a piece of?
คำใบ้
'Flour' is a substance and a food wordQuestion 6 of 6
Excellent!เยี่ยม!แย่หน่อย!คุณทำคะแนนได้:
End of Session 1
Well done if you managed to complete all the uncountable noun sentences correctly! That's it for this session. Join us for Session 2 where we'll look at quantifiers like some, either and neither. See you there!
Session Vocabulary
Uncountable nouns have no plural form and are not used with the indefinite article a or an.
Can you give me some information about accommodation in the city?
There are three main types of uncountable nouns that students often think are countable:
- activity nouns: travel, work, homework
- information nouns: advice, information, knowledge, research
- group nouns: accommodation, baggage, furniture, money, traffic, weather
Other nouns that are uncountable are:
- liquids and gasses: water, air
- materials and substances: wood, rice
- feelings and ideas: happiness, education
- subjects: geography, history, economics
A few uncountable nouns look plural because they end in -s. But they use a singular verb like other uncountable nouns:
Physics is a very interesting subject.
