Grammar A to Z 3: Intermediate - count vs noncount nouns

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  So, for grammar today, I wanted to look at count and non count nouns, because this is kind of something strange that English does, Jack, that other languages don't do.

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  So, like, how many episodes are we going to record today?

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  Not how much episodes are we going.

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  To record today, exactly.

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  I think before we give some examples of exactly what it is we should try and define, because really, it comes to what is count and what is non count.

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  Right?

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  And then how we talk about it is.

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  That's easy.

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  But what is this?

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  What's a count noun?

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  And what's a non count noun?

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  An uncountable noun.

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  So, right.

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  In English, we have count.

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  Nouns are things that are relatively easy to count.

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  You know, like apples.

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