A noun is a thing, e.g. cat, room, exam. Most of the time, we can talk about how many of these things we have: Bobby has three cats at home! It’s amazing how many rooms are empty in our school. I have ...

Sometimes a noun looks like it should be plural when it isn’t. Chances are that this noun is called a mass noun. Mass nouns are nouns that, by their very nature, are plural. These are also called ...

A school of fish is a collective noun that refers to a specific group of things, animals, or people, all with a singular form. Credit: Georgette Douwma/Getty Images There are more than ten different ...

When we use an abstract uncountable noun to make a general statement, we don’t use the. When we use an abstract uncountable noun to refer to a specific example of a noun, we use the before the noun.