Countable and
Uncountable With Different Meanings
Stuff
/ materials
|
things
|
Glass (kaca)
Cloth (kain/masih utuh)
Fish (ikan yang sudah
disajikan/menu makan)
Work (pekerjaan)
|
A glass (sebuah gelas)
A cloth
A fish
A work
|
Examples :
Be careful! There’s broken glass on the road
I need a cloth to
wipe the table
We had fish for
dinner
Hamlet is one of Shakespeare’s most famous works
# Here are some more nouns used in both ways.
Make sure you know the difference between the uncountable and the countable meaning.
Drink / a drink hair / a hair paper/a paper land/a land people/a
people
Home/ a home policy/a policy trade/a trade
Drink was a the cause
of all his problems. [alcohol]
Did you buy a
paper this morning? [a news paper]
Etc.
# The names of food items often have a different shade of
meaning when used countable and uncountable .
Coffee/tea a coffee and two tea
Potato just
two potatoes, please!
Etc.
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