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2. Objects with a definite shape:
a ball                           a mountain 
a building                    a street 
a car                            a tent 
a door                         a typewriter 
a house                        an umbrella
3. Units of measurement (for length, area, weight, volume, temperature, pressure, speed and so on) and
words of classification (often used as measurement and classification with uncountable nouns):
a basket                               a drop
a gram                                 a degree
an inch                                 a kind
a foot                                   a type
a meter                                 a piece
a pound                                a bit
a square foot, meter             an item
a cubic inch, centimetre       a part
4. Classifications in society:
a family         a country      a language 
a clan             a state          a word 
a tribe            a city            a phrase
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.
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