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DOES Questions Countable and Uncountable Nouns

Do / Does
The verb to do - there is help in English. Used to interrogative and negative sentences in present. Let's see what we mean: To ask, for example: "Hablas ingls?" normal for us would say "You speak English?" and to say "No, I do not speak English" as we "No, I not speak English", but it is not.

To say Hablas Ingls" I must say: Do you speak English? To answer yes or no to this question say: Yes, I speak English. No, I do not speak English.

DOES
When we speak in the third person singular, "he", "she", "it", the auxiliary verb do, does becomes, will: Does he ...? or Does she ...? Does he speak English? Yes, he speaks English. Does she speak English? No, she doesn't (she does not) speak English. The structure of the questions is: Does + subject + verb + complement

DOES Exercises
Does he drink soda? Does she go to concerts? Does it hurt? Does it smell rich? Does the music sounds good? Does he eat pizza? Does she go shopping? Does she drive?

What are countable nouns?


Countable nouns are individual objects, people, places, etc. which can be counted. A countable noun can be both singular - a friend, a house, etc. - or plural - a few apples, lots of trees, etc.

Use the singular form of the verb with a singular countable noun:
dog, cat, animal, man, person bottle, box, litre coin, note, dollar cup, plate, fork table, chair, suitcase, bag Countable nouns can be singular or plural: My dog is playing. My dogs are hungry.

Uncountable Nouns

Uncountable nouns are substances, concepts etc that we cannot divide into separate elements. We cannot "count" them. For example, we cannot count "milk". We can count "bottles of milk" or "litres of milk", but we cannot count "milk" itself. Here are some more uncountable nouns:

Uncountable Nouns

music, art, love, happiness advice, information, news furniture, luggage rice, sugar, butter, water electricity, gas, power money, currency

We usually treat uncountable nouns as singular : We use a singular verb. For example:

This news is very important. Your luggage looks heavy. You can count uncountable nouns if you use: A piece of cheese A bowl of soup A cup of tea A bottle ofwine A carton ofmilk A bar of chocolate
MILK

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