Portal da Língua Inglesa: Something about countable and uncountable nouns.

Portal da Língua Inglesa: Something about countable and uncountable nouns.:



Well, you have to teach countable and uncountable nouns in English today, right? Good luck with it; it is going to be quite difficult if your students are Brazilians. And why is that? Well, because in Portuguese, they can count bread,meat, and fruit, but in English, they cannot.

They will probably use the interlanguage -- the type of language produced by second- and foreign- language learners who are in the process of learning a language.

Some correct answers will depend on the context or on what you really want to say.

Everybody knows that ‘egg’ is countable, isn’t that right?

‘I bought two eggs at the
supermarket yesterday’ is an example of a correct sentence. However, ‘egg’ will be uncountable in ‘I have egg in my T-shirt’.






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