45341 countable and uncountable nouns

Countable & Uncountable Nouns
A) Decide whether these nouns are countable (C) or uncountable (U)
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The children are playing in the garden.

2.

I don't like milk.

3.

I prefer tea.

4.

Scientists say that the environment is threatened by pollution.

5.

My mother uses butter to prepare cakes.

6.

There are a lot of windows in our classroom.

7.

We need some glue to fix this vase.

8.

The waiters in this restaurant are very professional.

9.

My father drinks two big glasses of water every morning.

10.

The bread my mother prepares is delicious.

11.

Drivers must be careful; the road is slippery.

12.

Some policemen are organizing road traffic to avoid any accidents.

13.

I bought three bottles of mineral water for our picnic.

14.

I'd like some juice please!

15.

Successful candidates will join the camp later this year.

16.

A rise in oil prices is inevitable since there is more and more world demand for
energy.

17.

The exercises on this website are interesting.

18.

Dehydrated babies must drink a lot of water.

19.

Adult illiterates learn through a special government programme.

20.

I met some nice people when I was walking along the beach.

B) Write C for countable and U for uncountable:
Time
Hair
Friends
Rice
Money
Love
Heat

Books
Chairs
Fingers
Games
Traffic
Frog
Fuel

Sugar
Meat
Flour
Tomatoes
Chicken
Music
Toy

Milk
Pencils
Apples
Cream
Chocolate
Rain
Tooth

Pens
Jam
Cars
Honey
Onion

Musician
Happiness

Salt
Houses
cheese
Carrots
Pig
Rabbit
Light

C) Choose between A, AN, SOME or ANY.
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It is ________ dog.
Have you got ________ friends?
I bought ________ milk.
Linda has not got ________ pets.
There is ________ orange on the table.
Tim eats ________ cheese every day.

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Countable & Uncountable Nouns

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We don't have ________ bread.
My brother found ________ money.
My sister found ________ pen.
Do you have ________ eggs?
There are ________ students in the classroom.
Is there ________ pencil on the desk?
Is there ________ sugar?
I'd like ________ more tea, please
We have got ________ apple, ________ cherries and ________ banana. We can

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make ________ fruitcake.
There wasn't ________ chicken left when I arrived home yesterday.
Are there ________ potatoes? I'd like to prepare a Spanish omelet.
There isn't ________ rice in the cupboard. I'll go to the supermarket and get

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That's ________ delicious chocolate cake!
There aren't ________ bananas left.
Oh! I've lost ________ earring!
I'll have ________ hamburger, please.
There are ________ leaves on the ground.
There aren't ________ children playing in the park today.

D) Choose between HOW MUCH or HOW MANY.
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cheese do you buy?

books are there in your bag?
films did Tom see last week?
money do you spend every week?
friends does Linda have?
sugar do we need?
tomatoes are there in the fridge?
meat are you going to buy?
milk did you drink yesterday?
apples do you see?
chocolate do you need for the cake?
people were there at the meeting yesterday?
brothers has she got? Two, I think.
does it cost?
rooms are in your house?
did Romeo love Juliette?
days are in a week?
time does it take?
times a week to you go to the movies?
do you smoke?
cigarettes do you smoke per day?

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