Structure 2014-07-08 count/noncount nouns

Greg Malivuk
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NOUNS
people, things, places

Proper nouns: Greg Malivuk, United States, Boston Academy of English
Common nouns:   teacher        country             school

compound nouns: bedroom, bathroom, diing room, police station
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    Count nouns: nouns you can count, like "person", "boy", "desk", "dollar",
	"Euro", "tables", "suggestion", "assignment"
Non-count nouns: nouns you can't count, like "sugar", "milk", "water", "bread"
	"money", "furniture", "advice", "homework"

You can count money but you can't count "money".
(The thing is countable but the word is non-count.)

"chicken" - the meat is non-count, the animal is count
	The farmer killed one chicken, now is family is eating some chicken.
"cheese" - non-count for the substance: a slice of cheese, some cheese
	   count for kinds of cheese: There are three cheeses on this.
a hair = one strand of hair
How much time do you have left? (noncount - hours/minutes/days)
I've done this many times before. (count - once, twice, three times)

informal: I would like two coffees please. (=two cups)
	  Please put one cream and two sugars in it.
	 (=1 container of cream and 2 bags of sugar)

("coffees", "creams" and "sugars" are also correct for different kinds)
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For other non-count nouns, we can add the quantity or container to make it countable:
Three bottles of water. One gallon of milk. A grain of sugar. A slice of bread. A box of cereal. A piece of advice. A bolt of lightning. A peal of thunder.
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p. 96 exercise 1
1 program, questions (count)
  health (non-count)
2 habit
  moderation
3 calories
  food, salt, sugar, cholesterol
4 dangers
  warmth
5 patients
  skin cancer
6 minutes
  sunblock, sun (=sunlight)
7 tennis champ
  shape, exercise, (tennis)
8 husband, BMI, category
  (all count)
9 cure
  baldness
10 years
   hair
BMI = Body Mass Index (kg/m^2)
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1 fish, 2 fish (sheep, deer, shrimp)
1 criterion, 2 criteria (phenomenon/phenomena)
1 stimulus, 2 stimuli (cactus/cacti, radius/radii)
1 medium, 2 media (datum/data)
child/children, man/men, woman/women, ox/oxen
foot/feet, tooth/teeth, mouse/mice
knife/knives, leaf/leaves, wolf/wolves, wife/wives
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p. 97 exercise 2
2 a work (a specific work of poetry)
3 a history (a specific historical account)
4 a talk
5 space
6 a time (point in time, like 6 o'clock)
7 criteria
8 time (quantity of time)
9 Work
10 fish
11 Soda
12 milk
13 history (general academic subject)
14 a film (a specific movie)
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1 The two best films I have seen in the last year are ___ and ___.
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Homework: p. 105-107 (reading and questions for the next chapter)