Lesson 9 - Curso de Ingles Rapido

Countable and Uncountable nouns

Um substantivo, em inglês, pode ser contável ou incontável.  Dependendo dessa característica certas palavras poderão ou não acompanhá-lo.  Veja a tabela abaixo:

Countable	Uncountable
A/an	-
Some	Some
Few/ a few	Little/ a little
Many	Much
A lot of/ lots of	A lot of/ lots of

Would you like an apple?

I need some new shoes.

Would you like some tea?

I have few/a few friends.

How much money do you have?

How many girlfriends does he have?

I got a lot of/ lots of presents.

Let´s make a lot of/ lots of money .

As seguintes palavras são incontáveis em inglês, mas geralmente contáveis em português:

Information

Advice

Weather

News

Bread

Hair

Furniture

Por serem incontáveis, é comum que com essas palavras, para que se dê uma idéia de plural, usemos expressões como a piece of, a bar of, a pint of, a liter of, a glass of, a can of, etc.  Se assim acontecer, lembre-se de que essas expressões têm plural:

Would you like a piece of cheese?

I have some pieces of advice for you.

She bought two bars of soap in the market.

Se uma palavra é incontável, o verbo que a acompanha deve estar obrigatoriamente no singular:

The news is amazing.

The weather is nice today.

The information was given yesterday night.

Exercises:

I.              Write C for countable nouns and U for uncountable:

Water=

Car=

House=

Cheese=

Glass=

Coffee=

Music=

Man=

Oil=

1.    Put in  much/many, few/little:

New York City is very big.  There are _________people there.

This food is horrible. There´s too _________salt in it

Bob is not very happy.  He has ________friends.

I cannot talk to you now. I have __________time.

How _______time do you take to take a shower?

The park wasn´t full yesterday.  There were _______people there.

I cannot write all those letters because I have __________ink.

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