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6. Father purchased new furnitures for the house.

7. Nine sheeps were grazing in the meadow.

8. There are two glass on the table.

Now, read this passage.
For breakfast, I usually eat some bread

with a little jam or sometimes I like to Remember
eat melted butter on a warm toast. Some Uncountable nouns can be made
mornings, I love to have porridge with a countable by using a partitive. We
little sugar. I do not like to have milk. use a partitive to talk about only
a part of the whole of something.
The highlighted words in the passage cannot be For example, a little butter, a loaf
counted. We cannot say milks or jams, but we of bread or a lot of money.
can say a glass of milk, a bottle of jam, a bowl
of porridge or a dollop of butter.

Nouns that can be counted are called countable nouns. Nouns that cannot be
counted are called uncountable nouns.

Most of the uncountable nouns do not have plural forms.

We should say We should not say

a little/some/a dollop of butter butters

some/a loaf of/a slice of bread breads

some/a bit of/two metres of cloth cloths

long/short/curly/grey/a few strands of hair hairs

some/a little/a lot of/ delicious food foods

some/a lot of money moneys

our/a piece of/many pieces of luggage luggages

some/an item of/a piece of/many pieces of furniture furnitures

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