Count Noncount Nouns
abstractions, activities, diseases, foods, gasses, liquids, natural phenomenon, occupations, particles, solid elements, subjects
What are non-count nouns?
Expressions of quantity that state the amount of the noun.
What is a quantifier?
The prophets came here in the first century to practice their ancient ...traditions of self denial such as...
What is ascetic and fasting?
The prophets came here in the first century to practice their ancient ascetic traditions of self denial such and fasting.
Rainfall is essential for crops.
a) zero article + plural noun
b) indefinite article + count noun
c) zero article + non count noun
What is (c), zero article + non count noun?
Unit vocabulary for:
a) chosen
b) followers
c) prepared for war
a) What is designated?
b) What are practitioners?
c) What is it to mobilize?
one woman
nine planets
this sand which
some vegetables
an interesting idea
What are count nouns?
The change in connotation when the indefinite article a is placed before few and little.
What is a positive connotation?
They appealed to the protesters to...violence.
What is to refrain from?
They appealed to the protesters to refrain from violence.
A computer is a machine that does calculations and processes information.
a) zero article + plural count noun
b) indefinite article +count noun
c) zero article +non count noun
What is (b) indefinite article + count noun?
Unit vocabulary word for:
a) stop
b) theorize
c) orders or regulations to follow
a) What is to cease?
b) What is to speculate?
c) What are ordinances?
rice
some advice
What are non-count nouns?
Just as
in the same way that
What are adverb clauses of comparison or similarity?
To err is human, to forgive, is ...
What is divine?
To err is human, to forgive, is divine.
-Alexander Pope
All singular count nouns must be preceded by either an indefinite article [a(an)] or a definite article [the].
True or False.
What is true?
A church is to Christianity as a ...is to Judaism.
What is a synagogue?
A church is to Christianity as a synagogue is to Judaism.
a piece of furniture
a bolt of lightening
a clap of thunder
a cup of water
a game of tennis
What are countable non-count nouns?
Discourse connectors because and since expresses this kind of clause in the following sentence:
Because/Since it was very powerful, DDT cleared regions of Malaria throughout the 1940s and 1950s
What is an adverb clause that expresses cause or reason?
It's been really...here. When things settle down , I'll give you a call.
What is hectic?
It's been really hectic here. When things settle down, I'll give you a call.
This article describes "one of many."
What is a(an)?
Religious leaders (name two)
What are theologians, priests, rabbis, bishops or clergy?
Non-count nouns are countable and uncountable.
True or False
What is true?
Compound sentences using the pattern
such (+noun) or so (+adjective or adverb)...that...
What are compound sentences that express degree of effect?
Besides the fasting, they need a strong... to endure the many hours of prayer.
What is a strong will?
Besides the fasting, they need a strong will to endure the many hours of prayer.
This sentence describes "the specific one."
a) Islam is the religion practiced by all believers
b) Islam is a religion.
What is (a) Islam is the religion practiced by all believers?
Places of worship ( name three)
What are mosques, synagogues, temples, shrines and churches?