🟢 Countable & Uncountable Nouns

Countable nouns

  • We can count them: one pill, two pills, etc
  • They can be plural
  • Examples: pill, tablet, box, prescription, customer
Uncountable

  • We cannot count them individually
  • They do not have a plural form
  • Examples: medicine, equipment, blood, oxygen, shampoo, advice

🟣 THERE IS / THERE ARE

  SINGULAR/Uncountable PLURAL
POSITIVE

There is a customer waiting.

There is some medicine in the fridge.

 There are three patients waiting.
NEGATIVE

There isn't a thermometer in the first-aid kit

There isn't any disinfectant in the storage room

 There aren't any gloves left.
QUESTIONS

Is there a box in the counter?

Is there any insulin in stock?

 Are there any vaccines?

🟠 SOME / ANY

  Countable (plural) Uncountable
POSITIVE We have some bandages. We have some medicine for your illness. 
NEGATIVE We don't have any bandages. We don't have any insulin
QUESTIONS Are there any prescriptions? Is there any equipment in the ambulance?
Última modificación: luns, 17 de novembro de 2025, 7:10 PM