Uncountable nouns are things that can’t be counted by using a number, such as quantities of liquids or gases, as well as abstract ideas or qualities.
Uncountable nouns are used with a single verb, and do not use a definite article such as ‘a’ or ‘an’:
For example, do not say ‘How many moneys will it cost?’.
Because ‘money’ is an uncountable noun, you must use adjectives like much, a lot of, little, a little bit of, some, plenty, enough, or no.
Say:
· How much money will it cost?
· Will it cost a lot of money?
· It only costs a little bit of money.
· It will cost you some money, but not a lot of money.
· Do you have enough money?
· I have plenty of money.
· I have no money.
(The only time money is a countable noun is when we are speaking of specific denominations: ‘I have many rupees’, or ‘That sounds like a lot of Euros!’)
Here is a list of common uncountable nouns:
| Things: | Gases: | Abstract: | Activities: |
| furniture | air | art | yoga |
| clothing | hydrogen | love | sports |
| luggage | nitrogen | humour | music |
| equipment | smoke | freedom | homework |
| money | steam | advice | business |
| tools | help | chess | |
| Nature: | welfare | research | |
| Liquids: | sunshine | bravery | cricket |
| fuel | rain | aggression | |
| water | snow | courage | Every Day: |
| petrol | ice | luck | breakfast |
| diesel | lightning | faith | lunch |
| fertiliser | weather | grief | dinner |
| bleach | knowledge | traffic | |
| Food Solids: | attention | transportation | |
| Solids: | cheese | poetry | labour |
| silver | butter | care | paper |
| gold | meat | freedom | |
| dirt | fruit | pride | tea |
| concrete | pastry | privacy | time |
| wood | noodle | warmth | network |
| asphalt | rice | anger | hardware |
| software | |||
| States of Being: | Food Liquids: | Mass: | work |
| sleep | milk | furniture | police |
| stress | juice | foliage | pay |
| childhood | tea | hair | equipment |
| youth | water | stuff | |
| elderly | wine | sheep | |
| sad | oil | public | |
| happy | vinegar | ||