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Grammar Uncountable nouns We not use a or one, two, three, etc before uncountable nouns, but we can use the, some/any, much, more, and my/your, etc We need to buy flour and sugar Add the butter and stir Serve with some bread (not a butter) (not three breads) Note that some nouns can be countable or uncountable: Her hair is red (uncountable) There’s a hair in my rice (countable) I drink too much coffee (uncountable) Two coffees, please (countable) A lot of and lots of A lot of / lots of + singular noun takes a singular verb: A lot of his poetry is funny Lots of his poetry is funny (not Lots of his poetry are funny.) A lot of / lots of + plural noun takes a plural verb: A lot of his poems are funny (not A lot of his poems is funny.) Lots of his poems are funny Uncountable nouns We not use a or one, two, three, etc before uncountable nouns, but we can use the, some/any, much, more, and my/your, etc We need to buy flour and sugar Add the butter and stir Serve with some bread (not a butter) (not three breads) Note that some nouns can be countable or uncountable: Her hair is red (uncountable) There’s a hair in my rice (countable) I drink too much coffee (uncountable) Two coffees, please (countable) A lot of and lots of A lot of / lots of + singular noun takes a singular verb: A lot of his poetry is funny Lots of his poetry is funny (not Lots of his poetry are funny.) A lot of / lots of + plural noun takes a plural verb: A lot of his poems are funny (not A lot of his poems is funny.) Lots of his poems are funny
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