Respuestas
Respuesta:
Contables:
1- I had an apple for dessert.
2-Add once hundred grams of sugar to the preparation.
3-Two leaves fell from the tree.
4-Two planes are leaving for Rio today.
5-They had two pieces of cake.
No contables:
1-My mother uses too much oil when she cooks .
2-Can I have some water, please?
3-We need some fresh air.
4-I put two spoons on sugar in my coffee.
5-The wound caused him a lot of pain.
Respuesta: Los sustantivos ingleses se dividen en contables y no contables.
Los sustantivos contables, tienen plural y se pueden cuantificar numéricamente, mientras que los no contables, no tienen forma plural y solo se pueden cuantificar de manera indeterminada.
No existe un criterio absoluto para saber si un sustantivo desconocido es contable o incontable, pero sí sabemos que hay cuantificadores que solo se usan con sustantivos contables y otros que solo se usan con sustantivos incontables:
Cuantificadores contables: a/an , few, fewer, many, several. Números.
Cuantificadores no contables: little, less, much, least.
También hay excepciones de uso contable de sustantivos que normalmente son no contables.
Ejemplos sustantivos contables:
box: a box, two boxes.
umbrella: an umbrella, three umbrellas.
street : many streets.
window: four windows.
friend: few friends.
oranges: several oranges.
chicken: many chickens.
dog: many dogs.
bottle: several bottles.
meter: one hundred meters.
Ejemplos sustantivos no contables:
sugar: little sugar.
water: less water.
oil: little oil.
coffee: a lot of coffee.
beard: a lot of beard.
milk: little milk.
wine: little wine.
blood: a lot of blood.
salt: a lot of salt.
cheese: little cheese.