Vincent Teo  +  462105 Wed, 09 Jan 08 07:41 AM Shall I know, "Coins and money" - are they countable nouns? Vincent Teo Joined on Sat, Mar 31 2007 Veteran Member 5,660 Nouns, Countable Nouns

	nona the brit  +  462160 Wed, 09 Jan 08 11:02 AM Coins are but money isn't. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,743 The name says it all.

	Yoong Liat  +  462242 Wed, 09 Jan 08 02:06 PM  Vincent Teo wrote: Shall I know, "Coins and money" - are they countable nouns? In grammar, when we say that 'money' is uncountable, we mean that we cannot say, "One money, Two money, etc." But 'coins' is countable. We can say "One cent, two cents, ten cents, fifty cents." Yoong Liat Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006 Veteran Member 6,746 Grammar, Nouns, Countable Nouns

	Grammarwannabe  +  462411 Wed, 09 Jan 08 10:48 PM Let me add my 2 cents (sorry I couldn't resist) Answer same as above.  As far as thinking about coun and non-count noun, though two things have helped me when I explain it often when there are different kinds of things in a group it's a non-count          money works here:  coins, bills, gold pieces are all kinds of money.  Fruit is the same thing Now for things like chocolate, soap, etc       We all know that water is not countable, but why is chocolate or Bread. Think of these things in their original state:  bread was a big mound of dough that you couldn't count the loaves of bread in.  Chocolate--before we make it in a candy bar is a big melted pot of hot chocolate...we can't count how many candies there are in that... Grammarwannabe Joined on Mon, Apr 23 2007 New Member 38 Nouns, Countable Nouns