Do we use a, an or some for these words?
- book
- wine some
- rice
- apple
- music
- tomato
- rain
- cassette
- egg
- food
Look at these rules
- We use "a" with objects we can count the begin with a consonant Example: a book
- We use "some" with object we can not count Example: some milk
- We use "an" with object we can count that begin with a vowel Example: an orange
Asking questions for countable and uncountable objects
Complete the questions using much or many
- How money do you have?
- How people live in your city?
- How does that book cost?
- How rice is there?
- How apples are there in the basket?
- How petrol do we need?
- How children are in the class?
- How teachers do you have?
Look at these rules
- We use "How many" for questions using countable or plural objects Example: How many books do you have?
- We use "How much" for questions using a non-countable or singular object Example: How much juice is left?
- We use "How much" for questions asking about ONE object Example: How much does the book cost?
- Most plurals are formed by adding "-s" to the noun or object Example: book -s = books. Some of the more important exceptions include: man - men, child - children, person - people, woman - women
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