Учебное пособие: Консультации по английской грамматике В помощь учителю иностранного языка

5. Some abstract nouns:

a help a plan

a hindrance a rest

an idea a scheme

an invention a taboo

a nuisance

Certain kinds of nouns are uncountable.

1. Names of substances and materials:

Food Materials

bread copper

cake cotton

chocolate concrete

meat grass

spaghetti iron

spinach steel

butter wood

cheese wool

2. Names of liquids, gases, and substances made of many small particles:

Liquids Gases Grains and other solids made

of many small particles

coffee air barley

milk carbon dioxide rice

oil oxygen sugar

tea smoke popcorn

3. Names of languages: Arabic, English, Chinese, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, Welsh.

4. Most nouns ending in -ing. Exceptions include "building," "feeling," "dealing," "wedding" and "helping" when it means a portion of food; "a saving" is economy, but "savings" is an amount of money;

"furnishings" is always plural.

camping parking

clothing shopping