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Alexandr kryg Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Countable or uncountable? (topic nouns)

Cereal, a bowl of cereal, a cup ot tea, crisps, mashed potatoe, snack, buiscuits and sweets
  

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You tell us what you think, and we'll tell you if you are right.
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I need answers of the native English speakers!
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You'll get help from native speakers and knowledgeable non-natives if you make some effort yourself. If you make mistakes, we can judge from your mistakes how best we can help you.
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OK. I think dat cereal, crisps, mashed potatoe, snack - uncountable.

A bowl of cereal, a cup ot tea, buiscuits and sweets - countable
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grammar does not have a variant for non-natives
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alexandr krygOK. I think dat cereal, crisps, mashed potatoe, snack - uncountable.
Do you really think that 'dat' is correct in that first sentence?

We are happy to hep people who genuinely want to improve their English, but if you won't make a little real effort, why should we?
alexandr krygA bowl of cereal, a cup ot tea, buisc
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dat is a preposition that
OK. And why crisps in a plural form is uncountable?
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A simple tip for most of my Asian students.

If a noun has a plural form eg, snack(s), candies - they are usually countable.

on the contrary,

If a noun does not have a plural form, water, oil - they are usually uncountable.

This is not a "definite" rule as there are always exceptions in English. And some nouns can be both countable and uncountable depending o
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alexandr krygfivejedjon, thanksI need more answers
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