the same: there are countable and uncountable nouns. However, I am sure you have noticed that there are cases when some English nouns are uncoountable but their Russian equivalents are countable and viсe versa.
This post is dedicated to getting more familiar to such cases and thus bringing more accuracy into your speaking.
This post is dedicated to getting more familiar to such cases and thus bringing more accuracy into your speaking.
Task:
1. Use the online version of the "Oxford learner's dictionary" placed on the upper right side of this page in order to categorize the words above by their countability (countable/ uncountable/both).
Example: Book (count.) or Love (uncount.)
2. Use the "Online Reference" dictionary to:
- find the Russian equivalents of the words above and also categorize them by their countability (countable or uncountable). For this purpose after typing the English word tick the "Russian dictionary" option to 'look in' and then click on "Look it up" at the bottom
- make up sentences with those nouns that are countable in English and uncountable in Russian (or vice versa) and compare the sentences with their Russian equivalents. What is different? Underline the words that change.
a lot of, a kilo of, a number of, any, a few, a little, lots of, many, much, some