Count Nouns

Count nouns are nouns that can be quantified or counted with a number.

A few examples:

• Names of persons, animals, plants, insects, and their parts: a boy, a kitten, a rose, an ear, three boys, seven kittens, twelve roses, two ears
• Objects with a definite shape: a building, a balloon, a house, an octopus, four buildings, six balloons, four houses, two octopi
• Units of measurement and words of classification: a gram, a pound, a piece, a lump, an item, a bit, a family, a state, a language, a phrase, a word
• Some abstract words: a hindrance, a scheme, an idea, a plan, a taboo, a rest