count and noncount nouns

[haseli22]

Hi,
how can I know if a noun is countable or uncountable?

[RonBee]

OWL at Purdue University: Count and Noncount Nouns (with Plurals, Articles, and Quantity Words)
The Noncount Noun
Exercise in Count and Non-Count Nouns
Count and Noncount Nouns

[RonBee]

See also:

Count and Non-Count Nouns#
Grammar Handbook: Mass and Count Nouns
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/se...earchid=190693

[RonBee]

Some noncount nouns:

advice
help
feedback
information

You can not have advices, helps, feedbacks, or informations. You can give some advice, get some help, receive some feedback, or require some information. Adjectives that do not apply:

several
a few
many

[RonBee]

Noncount nouns:

advice
help
bread
fruit
water
juice
milk
jewelry
furniture
rubbish
garbage
trash
wood
shrubbery
grass
wheat
sand
gravel
jewelry
coffee
tea
vegetation
staff
knowedge
abuse
attention
harm
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[RonBee]

More noncount nouns:

guidance
assistance
wheat

[RonBee]

Noncount nouns that are sometimes count nouns

experience
grass
water
tea
coffee

[tzfujimino]

Thank you for the tremendous effort.

P.S.
effort - count or noncount? Maybe...both?

[Soup]

Originally Posted by tzfujimino

Thank you for the tremendous effort.

P.S.
effort - count or noncount? Maybe...both?

Count. Effort/efforts.

[RonBee]

Originally Posted by tzfujimino

Thank you for the tremendous effort.

P.S.
effort - count or noncount? Maybe...both?

The word "effort" is a count noun.

effort - OneLook Dictionary Search

Like other count nouns, it takes an article. Examples:

an effort
an orange
an hour
an opera
an audition
an audience

It's not usual, but you can put a number in front of it. Example:

He made two efforts, then he quit.