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She hI:ard a noise in the attic. Noise can be harmful to health. NOT ., Raise can be harmful to health.

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Rice feeds millions. NOT Rice feeQ millions. It feeds millions.

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3. Notice the following categories and examples of noJH:OUDt nouns. Abstractions Activities chance, energy, honesty, love basketball, dancing, tennis AIDS, cancer, influenza, malaria

Diseases FoodsGases Liquids Natural phenomena Occupations Particles Solid elements Subjects

beef, bread, fish, fruit, meat air, carbon dioxide, oxygen, smoke

coffee, gasoline, milk, tea, water electricity, heat, rain, thunder dentistry, nursing, teaching dust, pepper, salt, sand, sugar gold, iron, plutonium, silver

Others

Chinese, English, physics, science equipment, furniture, money, news

4. We frequently make non-count nouns countable by adding a phrase that gives them a funn, a limit, or a container.

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