[NEW] Uncountable Nouns 🧚‍♀️ List of Words Without Plural Form | uncountable nouns – NATAVIGUIDES

I have no knowledges or information whatsoever about antique furnitures and jewelleries.

Can you spot the mistakes in the sentence above? I’ll give you a clue: there are four letters too many. Yes, it’s the letter S! Can you say knowledges? No, you can’t. Why? This word, just like information, furniture and jewellery, has NO PLURAL FORM.

I have no knowledge or information whatsoever about antique furniture and jewellery.

Sounds much better, doesn’t it?

Most words that have no plural form are uncountable which means, not surprisingly, that you cannot count them. Unfortunately, the concept of what is countable and what is not, varies from language to language.

For example, BREAD may be countable in your language, but not in English. So, you can’t say
‘My gorilla had fifteen breads for breakfast.’ 

The correct form is:
‘My gorilla had fifteen loaves of bread for breakfast.’ 

Notice that the word bread doesn’t end with -s in the correct version. That’s because it has no plural form.

MOST COMMON UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS LIST

FOOD AND DRINKS

WATER
WINE
MILK
RICE
PASTA
BREAD
BEEF
PORK
FRUIT
SUGAR
SALT
FLOUR
CHEESE
BUTTER
TEA
HONEY
JAM

• Could you get my imaginary friend some water?
• Do you think vampires like wine?
• My cat hates milk.
• I’ve found a grain of rice in my pocket.
• Let’s have some pasta for breakfast!
• I’m not allowed to eat bread, but I’ve just had a slice with my soup.
• How much beef do you eat?
• I never eat beef. I always have pork instead.
• Did dinasours like fruit?
• Yes, they loved strawberries with sugar on top.
• Just add a pinch of salt and it’s ready.
• My daughter’s making flowers out of flour.
• I want to jump into a pool of cheese.
• Butter won’t melt in his mouth.
• Mrs Lipton takes her tea with honey.
• I love scones with jam.

 
Then, there are some concepts to do with
THINKING or FELLING

LOVE
FUN
WISDOM
KNOWLEDGE
INFORMATION
ADVICE
HELP
ASSISTANCE
COURAGE
BRAVERY
SATISFACTION
CURIOSITY
AGGRESSION
BEAUTY
FREEDOM
FAITH
GRIEF
GUILT
HUMOUR

• Love is in the air.
• Have fun and don’t do anything I wouldn’t do.
• Wisdom is when you learn not to feel regret ever again.
• To the best of my knowledge, Barbie and Ken have split up.
• Could you give me some information about your Learn English in Two Days program?
• Just call my mother-in-law if you need any advice.
• I don’t need any help, thanks. I can tie my shoelaces on my own now.
• Hulk got so upset, we had to call for assistance.
• I need to pluck up my courage and see a dentist.
• Nelson Mandela’s bravery was inspiring to millions of people.
• I can get no satisfaction.
• Curiosity killed the cat.
• Aggression is the most common behavioural problem among superheroes.
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
• Freedom is a basic human right.
• I have no faith in our system anymore.
• Grief has turned the Beast bitter.
• Guilt is what you feel when you take the last piece of chocolate from the box without asking anyone whether they’d like to have it.
• Dracula wasn’t well-known for his good sense of humour.

Difference between British and American Uncountable Nouns

Look at these
HOLIDAY, TRAVEL and FREE TIME words

ACCOMMODATION
BAGGAGE/ LUGGAGE
TRAVEL
TRAFFIC
TRANSPORTATION
NATURE
CURRENCY
ART
POETRY
LITERATURE
CHESS
JUDO/ YOGA
ENTERTAINMENT
APPLAUSE
GRASS

• Have you found accommodation yet or are you planning to spend the night in the car?
• What shall we do with our luggage while we’re chasing butterflies in the park?
• After the space travel, all I needed was a bath.
• She didn’t have transportation, so she decided to hitch-hike.
• Let nature take its course.
• I don’t believe in the single European currency.
• That’s not art. It’s just a dot on a blank canvas.
• They recited dark poetry in the moonlight every night.
• Literature is not about writing random words one after the other.
• We’ll play chess later, but now I’d like to watch The Simpsons.
• Yoga is not only about meditation, it’s also hard physical exercise.
• The only entertainment in our village was when some drunkards got into a fight.
• We always gave the winner a round of applause when they finished fighting.
• We can’t have a picnic here. I want green grass and hopping hares.

How about some
EVERYDAY THINGS

TIME
AIR
HEAT
HOUSEWORK
HOMEWORK
EDUCATION
EQUIPMENT
BUSINESS
ATTENTION
GARBAGE/ RUBBISH/ LITTER
OIL
PAPER
DIRT
DUST
FURNITURE
GAS/ PETROL
LAND
MUD
LIGHTNING
RAIN
SUNSHINE
UNDERWEAR
MAIL

• Batman and Robin were running out of time.
• They were also running out of air quickly.
• The heat was inbearable in the coffin.
• Alfred, the butler, was doing housework in the meantime.
• He was reminiscing about the days he was helping Master Bruce with his homework.
• Bruce Wayne received good education.
• But he had no idea how household equipment worked.
• He was more concerned about his business with Catwoman.
• Batman was secretly craving for her attention.
• Alfred lifted the bin liner carefully and took out the rubbish. It was collection day.
• He hoped that Batman had checked the oil in the Batmobile before he left.
• He made a quick note on a piece of paper he’d found in his pocket.
• He wondered where the dirt in his pocket came from.
• Alfred considered household dust his worst enemy.
• The furniture appreciated the gentle care.
• Did the Batmobile run on petrol?
• One day this land will be free of villains.
• It had been raining for days in Gothem City. Their garden became a huge pile of mud.
• And lightning kept flashing. It even struck twice in the same place.
• Everybody was waiting for the rain to stop.
• ‘I’ll be dancing in my underwear at the first ray of sunshine’ Alfred was thinking to himself.
• He sighed and went to the letterbox to check the mail.

Your BODY

HEALTH
HAIR
HEIGHT
WEIGHT
STRENGTH
HUNGER
THIRST
LAUGHTER
NUTRITION
OBESITY
VISION

• I’m concerned about my parrot’s health.
• He used to have such shiny hair. Wait a minute. Parrots don’t have hair.
• It’s hard to tell my parrot’s height. He keeps dancing.
• He definitely has no weight problems.
• Whose strength is greater? Harry Potter’s or Voldemort’s?
• Hunger for material goods is destroying our planet.
• Voldemort quenched his thirst with a glass of iced lemonade.
• I think I can hear laughter coming from below.
• Blood doesn’t provide enough nutrition, so vampires like to go to fast food restaurants every now and then.
• Former WWE champions tend to suffer from obesity.
• Catwoman’s vision was blurred by unshed tears.

 
As you might see, all the words in the above list are followed by SINGULAR VERBS. That’s because they’re uncountable.

However, there are also some COUNTABLE NOUNS that have NO PLURAL FORMS. To be more precise, they have plural forms, but the plural forms are the same as the singular ones.

Because of their being countable, these nouns may be followed by PLURAL VERBS:

SHEEP
FISH
SALMON
DEER
SWINE
OFFSPRING
AIRCRAFT

• When I can’t sleep, I count sheep. One sheep, two sheep, three sheep, one hundred sheep.
• Master Bruce kept five fish in the pond. He named them after his favourite superheroes.
• Yogi bear caught three salmon for breakfast.
• My two deer follow me everywhere.
• Look! There are some swine in the mud.
• I want to have ten offspring (children).
• I think Ironman needs two more aircraft.

 
There are also some nouns that look plural, but in fact, they are uncountable ones in disguise. You can’t trust them at all. Remember to follow these nouns with singular verbs:

NEWS
BILLIARDS
MATHEMATICS
PHYSICS
MEASLES

• The news is worrying.
• Billiards is my favourite game.
• Mathematics is not my forte.
• Physics is difficult too.
• Measles is a really nasty respiratory disease.

Finally, let’s look at the rare occasions when uncountable nouns are used with plural forms:

• Hannibal Lecter drinks only the best of wines.
• I don’t know much about local cheeses.

In the above sentences WINES means different TYPES of wine. Similarly, CHEESES refers to different TYPES of cheese.

Countable and Uncountable Nouns

The nouns are the names of things, people, or places. The nouns have different classifications. Countable and uncountable nouns are types of nouns. These can be counted or not. Let’s discuss their usage with the help of examples and exercise.

Definition

Countable Nouns

Countable nouns are the things that we can count. For example, one book, three chairs, one room, etc. Countable nouns can be singular or plural such as chair (singular), chairs (plural).

Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable nouns are the things that we cannot count. For example, sand, advice and yoga etc. These words are in singular form.

Usage

Some words are used as both countable and uncountable nouns like room, hair, weight etc.

Example

• There is no room for luggage. (here room means space) Uncountable Noun
• There are five rooms in this building. Countable Noun

Some words are used with the Countable Nouns only such as few, a few, many

Some words are used with Uncountable Nouns only such as little, a little, much

10 Examples of Countable Nouns

1. There are twenty books on the bookshelf.
2. I drank a glass of fresh juice.
3. There are many animals in this zoo.
4. The monkeys were eating bananas.
5. There was no magazine on the table.
6. I took an apple and some grapes in the morning.
7. There are 9057 public libraries in the United States.
8. I have a few questions for you to ask.
9. Jonathan attended a webinar last night.
10. Only ten students passed the intelligence test.

20 Examples of Uncountable Nouns

1. I could not see anything in the

   darkness.

2. Success is a combination of hard work and determination.
3. Do you like sandwiches with cheese topping?
4. There is no return policy in this market.
5. Tom is interested in research work.
6. She spent many hours sitting on the beach sand.
7. The soil of this land is fertile.
8. Sound sleep is essential for good health.
9. There is no transportation between these two cities?
10. Do you need lots of energy to complete the assignment?
11. I do not have time to go there.
12. Positive behavior can turn an enemy into a friend.
13. There was plenty of cheese on the pizza.
14. The kids were having a lot of fun at the zoo.
15. Jacob has been learning Spanish for two weeks.
16. Cotton is widely used to make textile products.
17. This building is a great symbol of architecture.
18. Is there any recreation resort in this town?
19. Tom controlled his anger and responded politely.
20. She went to the park for fun.

Read also: 50 Sentences with Countable and Uncountable Nouns

List of Uncountable Nouns (a-z)

1. Access
2. Accommodation
3. Advice
4. Aggression
5. Air
6. Anger
7. Applause
8. Arithmetic
9. Atmosphere
10. Attention
11. Beef
12. Beer
13. Beauty
14. Biology
15. Botany
16. Bread
17. Butter
18. Behavior
19. Calm
20. Carbon
21. Cardboard
22. Coal
23. Chalk
24. Cheese
25. Childhood
26. Coffee
27. Confidence
28. Commerce
29. Confession
30. Confusion
31. Data
32. Darkness
33. Delight
34. Danger
35. Dancing
36. Dignity
37. Dust
38. Driving
39. Ethics
40. Engineering
41. Enjoyment
42. Education
43. Energy
44. English
45. Economics
46. Electricity
47. Environment
48. Evil
49. Failure
50. Faith
51. Fiction
52. Flu
53. Fish
54. Finance
55. Football
56. French
57. Friendship
58. Fruit
59. Fun
60. Gasoline
61. Gas
62. Grammar
63. Gold
64. Genetics
65. Grief
66. Grass
67. Growth
68. Gypsum
69. Gymnastics
70. Hair
71. Harm
72. Happiness
73. Heat
74. Height
75. Help
76. Hebrew
77. History
78. Hindi
79. Honey
80. Honesty
81. Humor
82. Hydrogen
83. Ice
84. Ice-cream
85. Inflation
86. Information
87. Intelligence
88. Irony
89. Iron
90. Italian
91. Japanese
92. Jam
93. Jelly
94. Jealousy
95. Joy
96. Justice
97. Juice
98. Kindness
99. Korean
100. Knowledge
101. Labor
102. Lava
103. Leather
104. Land
105. Laughter
106. Laboratory
107. Listening
108. Logic
109. Love
110. Luggage
111. Mail
112. Mathematics
113. Machinery
114. Meat
115. Music
116. Marble
117. Mud
118. Metal
119. Nature
120. News
121. Nitrogen
122. Nonsense
123. Oxygen
124. Oil
125. Paper
126. Pasta
127. Patience
128. Peace
129. Petrol
130. Perfume
131. Permission
132. Poverty
133. Physics
134. Psychology
135. Portuguese
136. Punctuation
137. Quality
138. Quartz
139. Racism
140. Rain
141. Recreation
142. Research
143. Revenge
144. Respect
145. Rice
146. Relaxation
147. Russian
148. Salad
149. Salt
150. Sand
151. Safety
152. Seafood
153. Silence
154. Silver
155. Soap
156. Shopping
157. Sleep
158. Soup
159. Software
160. Snow
161. Smoke
162. Spanish
163. Sociology
164. Sunshine
165. Symmetry
166. Tea
167. Tennis
168. Technology
169. Tolerance
170. Toast
171. Traffic
172. Time
173. Temperature
174. Thunder
175. Usage
176. Unemployment
177. Validity
178. Vinegar
179. Vocabulary
180. Violence
181. Vision
182. Water
183. Welfare
184. Weight
185. Working
186. Waling
187. Wood
188. Wind
189. Wheat
190. Wine
191. Wisdom
192. Wool
193. Work
194. Yeast
195. Yoga
196. Zinc
197. Zoology

You can find here list of uncountable nouns with meaning and sentences.

Exercise / Worksheet

Read the bold words in the given sentences and point out whether it is a countable noun or uncountable noun.

1. There were a lot of coins in the box. ( __________ )
2. I need your help to complete this project. ( __________ )
3. My advice fell flat on him. ( __________ )
4. Julia ordered two cups of coffee. ( __________ )
5. There are 20 bananas in the basket. ( __________ )
6. Mr. Johnson specializes in mathematics. ( __________ )
7. I prefer rugby over soccer. ( __________ )
8. There are plenty of houses in this zone. ( __________ )
9. The cold wind and snow stopped my jouney. ( __________ )
10. Tom is studying history. ( __________ )

Answers

1. Countable
2. Uncountable
3. Uncountable
4. Countable
5. Countable
6. Uncountable
7. Uncountable
8. Countable
9. Uncountable
10. Uncountable

Uncountable Nouns List

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