Countable nouns name things that we can count, for example, cars, cats and chickens. Uncountable nouns name things that we cannot count, for example, air and water. If you cook a chicken, though, the chicken that you put on your plate will be uncountable. You will eat some chicken, not some chickens.
Countable nouns can have plurals, for example, a car, two cars. Uncountable nouns do not have plurals.
We talk about countable and uncountable things differently in other ways, too. We say "a car" but "some water," "much money" but "many dollars."
Some people call uncountable nouns non-countable nouns.
The information and exercises on the Exercise Page will help you learn to recognize and use countable and uncountable nouns.
