Is people a countable or an uncounteble noun?

Answer 1

* man, meaning an adult male, is countable. e.g. One man, two men etc. * man, meaning mankind, is uncountable. e.g. Many scientists say that global warming has been caused by man, and not by natural forces.

Answer 2

A countable noun is a word for people or things that can be counted; nouns having singular and plural forms.

Example: one parent, two parents; one apple, two apples; one student, a class of students.

A uncountable noun is a word for things or ideas that can't be divided into separate elements; they can't be counted, such as a substance or a concept.

Example: advice, aluminum, education, electricity, music, money (one dollar is money, ten dollars is money).

Answer 3

Normally, "people" is an uncountable noun, because it refers to an undefined amount of people, for example "There were people in the room." However, most of the time, the amount of people can be estimated by other words in the sentence, such as "There were a lot of people" would imply there was more than 20, 30 people and inversely "There weren't many people" would imply exactly that: there weren't many people.

Keep in mind though that the situation or context in which it is said may complicate that. Consider: "There weren't many people at the concert." could mean that there were upwards of 500 people there (for example), due to the fact that it refers to a concert, where "not many" is relative to who said it (ie if a band member or manager said it, it could mean less than 1000, whereas if a fan said it, it could mean less than 100).

Hope that wasn't too complicated.. :)

Answer 4

Countable nouns are nouns that can be one or more, singular or plural; for example a house or two houses.

An uncountable noun is a noun that has no plural. Also called mass nouns are normally used in multiples of units; for example a grain of rice, a cup of water, or a ton of sand., or degrees for example more harm or less harm and more independence or less independence. Uncountable nouns are usually words for substances, abstract nouns, and gerunds (verbal nouns).

Some uncountable nouns have plural forms for 'types of' for example, two sugars are cane sugar or corn sugar, white or brown; two wines are Merlot or Riesling, red or white; five freedoms are speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition.

Answer 5

Almost all names are countable.

People: There are so many people in the world that there are few names that are unique. There are so many Johns and Maries, not to mention the thousand (millions?) of less common names.

Places: Most names of places are unique, but not exclusively. There are a few Romes (Italy, Georgia, New York, etc.) and several Georgias (the European country, South Georgia a British Overseas Territory, and the US state).

Things: There is no doubt that there are many Hondas and Fords on roads all over the world. People rarely eat one Oreo, they eat Oreos.

Answer 6

The word 'people' is a countable noun, the plural form for the noun person. Examples:

The people at the library were very helpful.

The person at the library was very helpful.