Countable vs Uncountable

Countable nouns refer to individual items you can count, like apple or car. They have singular and plural forms. Uncountable nouns refer to substances, qualities, or masses that you don't count as separate units, like water or information. They usually appear in the singular form.

Countable nouns name things you can count one by one. They can be singular or plural, and you can use numbers and expressions like a few or many with them. They take an or a in the singular.

Uncountable nouns name things that are seen as a whole or mass, such as liquids, powders, gases, or abstract concepts. They do not have a plural form and you cannot use a or an with them. Instead, you use expressions like some, much, or a little.

Quantifiers are words that express amount and work differently with countable and uncountable nouns. Use many, few, and several with countable nouns, and use much, little, and a bit of with uncountable nouns. Some quantifiers like some, any, and a lot of can go with both.

Countable nouns name individual items and have singular/plural forms; uncountable nouns name masses or abstract things and stay singular. Articles and quantifiers follow this distinction: use a/an, many, few with countables and use some, much, little with uncountables.