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productive feature

1.23 Although some names of animals, birds, trees, and plants are commonly used in the singular form with plural meaning, in fact all such names can be used in this way. This is a productive feature of English. Productive features are explained in the introduction.

 

Things not usually counted: uncount nouns

1.24 Some nouns refer to general things such as qualities, substances, processes, and topics rather than to individual items or events. These nouns have only one form, are not used with numbers, and are not usually used with the determiners ‘the’, ‘a’, or ‘an’.

...a boy or girl with intelligence.

The donkey needed food and water.

...new techniques in industry and agriculture.

I talked with people about religion, death, marriage, money, and happiness.

These nouns are called uncount nouns or uncountable nouns.

 

noun-verb agreement

1.25 When you use an uncount noun as the subject of a verb, you use a singular form of the verb.

Fear begins to creep slowly into their hearts.

They believed that local democracy was essential to good government.

Electricity is potentially dangerous.

 

list of uncount nouns

1.26 Here is a list of some common uncount nouns:

absence

access

age

agriculture

anger

atmosphere

beauty

behaviour

cancer

capacity

childhood

china

comfort

concern

confidence

courage

death

democracy

depression

design

duty

earth

education

electricity

energy

environment

equipment

evil

existence

experience

failure

faith

fashion

fear

finance

fire

flesh

food

freedom

fun

ground

growth

happiness

health

help

history

ice

independence

industry

insurance

intelligence

joy

justice

labour

loneliness

love

luck

magic

marriage

mercy

music

nature

paper

patience

peace

philosophy

pleasure

policy

poverty

power

pride

protection

purity

ram

reality

relief

religion

respect

safety

salt

sand

security

silence

sleep

strength

snow

spite

status

stuff

teaching

technology

time

trade

training

transport

travel

trust

truth

violence

waste

water

wealth

weather

welfare

wind

work

worth

youth

 

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