标题: 不可数名词概论 [打印本页] 作者: 陌陌的音乐 时间: 2012-9-7 09:48 标题: 不可数名词概论 Some nouns in English are uncountable nouns.
英语中有些单词是不可数名词。
We do not use uncountable nouns in the plural and we do not use them with the indefinite article, a/an.
不可数名词没有复数形式，我们也不用不定冠词a/an修饰他们。
We ate a lot of foods >We ate a lot of food
We bought some new furnitures >We bought some new furniture.
That’s a useful information >That’s useful information
We can use some quantifiers with uncountable nouns:
我们可以用某些量词修饰不可数名词：
He gave me some useful advice.
They gave us a lot of information.
Uncountable nouns often refer to:
不可数名词有一下类别：
Substances: food; water; wine; salt; bread; iron
Human feelings or qualities: anger; cruelty; happiness; honesty; pride;
Activities: help; sleep; travel; work
Abstract ideas: beauty; death; fun; life
Common uncountable nouns
常见的不可数名词
There are some common nouns in English, like accommodation, which are uncountable nouns even though they have plurals in other languages:
英语中有许多名词，如accommodation，是不可数名词，但它在其他语言中有复数形式：
英语语法入门：不可数名词
Let me give you some advice.
How much luggage have you got?
If we want to make these things countable, we use expressions like:
如果想让这些词变得可数，可以用下列短语：
英语语法入门：不可数名词
Let me give you a piece of advice.
That’s a useful piece of equipment.
We bought a few bits of furniture for the new apartment.
She had six separate items of luggage.
but we do not use accommodation, money and traffic in this way.
