Some common noncount nouns 1. Whole groups made up of similar items: baggage, clothing, equipment, food, fruit, furniture, garbage, hardware, jewellery, junk, luggage, mail, machinery, make-up, money/cash/change, postage, scenery, traffic.
Fluids: water, coffee, tea, milk, oil, soup, gasoline, blood, etc. Solids: ice, bread, butter, cheese, meat, gold, iron, silver, glass, paper, wood, cotton, wool, etc. Gases: stream, air, oxygen, nitrogen, smoke, smog, pollution, etc. Particles: rice, chalk, corn, dirt, dust, flour, grass, hair, pepper, salt, sand, sugar, wheat, etc.
Abstractions: ï beauty, confidence, courage, education, enjoyment, fun, happiness, health, help, honesty, hospitality, importance, intelligence, justice, knowledge, laugher, luck, music, patience, peace, pride, progress, recreation, significance, sleep, truth, violence, wealth, etc .
ï advice, information, news, evidence, proof;
ï time, space, energy;
ï homework, work;
ï grammar, slang, vocabulary.
Languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, Spanish, etc. Fields of study: economics, chemistry, engineering, history, literature, mathematics, psychology, etc. Recreation: baseball, soccer, tennis, chess, bridge, poker, etc . General activities: driving, studying, swimming, travelling, walking (and other gerunds). Natural Phenomena: weather, dew, fog, hail, heat, humidity, gravity, rain, lightning, sleet, snow, thunder, wind, darkness, light, sunshine, electricity, fire.
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