Unit 3: Can't buy me love
Quantifiers: all, each, every, both, either, neither
Select a unit
- 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
Session 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.
Activity 2
Uncountable nouns in sentences
How uncountable nouns work in sentences
You've heard about some uncountable nouns and how we use them in English. Now it's time to see if you can complete sentences with the correct forms of uncountable and countable nouns.
Complete the activity
To do
Try this gap fill activity and see if you can put the correct forms of the nouns where they should be. See if you can get them all right!
Uncountable gaps
8 Questions
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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Remember that 'advice' is an information word...Question 1 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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This question is about an information word...Question 2 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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Here we have two words: one is a group noun and the other is a substanceQuestion 3 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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Remember that we use singular verb forms with uncountable nounsQuestion 4 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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Some food nouns are uncountable but some are countableQuestion 5 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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'Furniture' is a group nounQuestion 6 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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'Attention' is an information wordQuestion 7 of 8
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Activity
Complete the sentences with the correct words or phrases. Some of them are countable and some of them are uncountable, so check the vocabulary summary box if you need help
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The first missing word is a group noun but the second missing word isn'tQuestion 8 of 8
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Well done if you managed to complete all the uncountable noun sentences correctly! Now go to the next activity and take a look at some of the phrases we use with some uncountable nouns like a glass of... and a piece of...
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.
