count noun
countable noun

Less has always been used in English with counting nouns.

They may also be used as count nouns and pluralized.

Counted nouns more than two appear in the plural form.

However, in casual usage the word also appears as a count noun.

The use of less or fewer with count nouns.

Quantization can also be used in the definition of count nouns.

"It's a relatively new word in the language, and it is developing as a count noun.

Classifiers can be used in place of the counted noun when context makes it sufficient.

In Japanese grammar, classifiers must be used with a number when counting nouns.

The numerals 60, 100 and 1000 don't change according to the gender of the counted noun.

Examples of count nouns are chair, nose, and occasion.

Only count nouns can be freely used in the singular and in the plural.

Unlike in English, some count nouns also have separate dual forms, for referring to two objects; see below.

In terms of the mass/count distinction, committee behaves like a count noun.

However, some abstract phenomena like "fun" and "hope" have properties which make it difficult to refer to them with a count noun.

Many languages distinguish between count nouns and mass nouns.

A count noun refers to a countable thing, like an egg or an apple, which can be used with the indefinite article "an."

The word is also used as a count noun: a taxonomy, or taxonomic scheme, is a particular classification.

Both "team" and "government" are count nouns.

"Why shouldn't 'E-mail' be used as a count noun?"

Some determiners can be used with both mass and count nouns, including "some", "a lot (of)", "no".

The counted noun takes indefinite accusative singular.

In such cases they no longer play the role of mass nouns, but (syntactically) they are treated as count nouns.

Examples include divisible count nouns like "rope", "string", "stone", "tile", etc.

Most measure words in English correspond to units of measurement or containers, and are themselves count nouns rather than grammatical particles:

Without this suffix, a countable noun is understood to be singular.

However, the division between uncountable and countable nouns is more ambiguous than in English.

You can use some with plural countable nouns.

In this scheme, every countable noun has what might be called its "inherent" or "expected" numbers, and is unmarked for these.

A countable noun can be singular (banana) or plural (bananas).

Countable nouns generally have singular and plural forms.

You cannot use singular countable nouns alone (without a/the/my etc.): d She never wears a hat.

We use the (+ singular countable noun) in this way to talk about a type of animal, machine etc.

Countable nouns inflect for number (singular and plural).

Classifiers are used for joining countable nouns with numerals:

Banana is a countable noun.

We use many and few with plural countable nouns: We didn't take many photographs.

Many languages have classifiers that identify countable nouns as belonging to a particular type or having a particular shape.

That is, when specifying the amount of a countable noun, the classifier has to agree with the noun.

Some people say that "none" should always take a singular verb, even when talking about countable nouns (e.g. five friends).

The indefinite article a (before a consonant sound) or an (before a vowel sound) is used only with singular, countable nouns.

Positions where the identified code is a large category (e.g. nouns), even when subdivided (e.g. singular countable nouns) need much better information from other levels.

Hair, as a countable noun may also refer to slender outgrowths of the plant epidermis or of the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other animals.

"Chad" has been used both as a mass noun (as in "a pile of chad") and as a countable noun (pluralizing as in "many chads").

The name given to a grammatical category (as an uncountable noun) is generally also used (as a countable noun) to denote any of the possible values for that category.

A classifier, in linguistics, sometimes called a measure word, is a word or morpheme used in some languages to classify the referent of a countable noun according to its meaning.

They can be used only with singular countable nouns; for the possible use of some (or any) as an equivalent with plural and uncountable nouns, see Use of some below.

Some grammarians argue that as a specific and countable noun, the word "TRAIN" should be preceded by "THE", but up to the present there has been no official change over it.

In all modern Chinese languages, however, measure words are obligatory in all Numeral + Countable Noun phrases; yī rén in modern Chinese is grammatically incorrect.

Some can also be used with singular countable nouns, as in There is some person on the porch, which implies that the identity of the person is unknown to the speaker (which is not necessarily the case when a(n) is used).