Countable and uncountable nouns

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Countable and uncountable nouns
* If you find “a”/“an” in front of the word or “s” at the end of a word, this word must be a countable noun. For examples, when you see “a car” or “cars”, the word “car” must be countable.
	Countable nouns
	Uncountable nouns
	oranges, carrots, onions, pineapples, pears, bananas, sweets, noodles, tomatoes, mushrooms, grapes, strawberries, apples, eggs, snacks, potato chips, vegetables, cakes, dollars
	bread, lettuce, milk, cheese, rice, beef, oil, garlic, meat, salt, ice-cream, sugar, pork, food, water, chicken(meat), butter, soup, tea, coffee, money
	Sometimes countable and sometimes uncountable
	egg, ice-cream, lettuce, coke, chocolate, chicken, 
	Words used with countable nouns
	Words used with uncountable nouns
	many, a few, few(close to zero), fewer
	much, a little, little(close to nothing), less
	Words used with both countable and uncountable nouns
	some, a lot of(=lots of) , plenty of, enough, any, more
When we want to count the uncountable nouns, we can put a phrase in front of the word. See the examples below:
a bar of chocolate, 2 bars of chocolate,
a bottle of milk / juice, three bottles of milk / juice
a carton of milk / juice, 5 cartons of milk / juice
a bowl of rice, a few bowls of rice
* “Milk” and “rice” are uncountable but “carton”, “bottle” and “bowl” are countable. You cannot say 1 milk, 2 milks but you can say “1 bottles”, “two bottles”.
If you want to know more, please read “Big Grammar: Book 4” Unit 1 and Unit 8