MEDIA MENGAJAR
FOR SMP/MTs GRADE VII
BRIGHT AN ENGLISH
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BAB 8
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A. Countable and Uncountable Nouns
1. Nouns in English are countable or uncountable. Countable nouns have a singular and a plural form.
apple – apples potato – potatoes book – books
question – questions man – men
2. Uncountable nouns don’t have a plural form – they are always singular.
food fruit rice bread milk
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A. Countable and Uncountable Nouns
3. Some nouns can be countable or uncountable.
4. With countable nouns, we can use a/an + singular noun and some + plural nouns.
5. With uncountable nouns, we use some.
We don’t use a/an with uncountable nouns.
a bread an information
B. Offering Something
To offer something, you can say the following expressions
Are you ready to order?
Would you like rice or potatoes?
No, I’d like to have fish and chips.
Rice, please.
What would you like to drink?
Orange juice, please.
Practice the dialogue
OK. Anything else?
That’s all, thank you.
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Summary
Countable nouns can be counted by numbers. They can be singular or plural.
Singular Nouns
For singular, we can add article a/an before the noun.
Example:
A book an egg a car an orange
Plural Nouns
We can add quantifiers some, many, a lot of, several.
Example:
Some books a lot of cars several houses
Uncountable nouns cannot be counted. They are always singular. We can add quantifier some, much, any.
Example:
some salt some rice much sugar some flour
Offering Things
To offer something, you can say the following expressions.