Examples of non-count (mass) nouns:
- advice
- aluminum
- anger
- art
- asphalt
- attire
- baggage
- beef
- blood
- bread
- butter
- chalk
- cheese
- Chess
- coffee
- concrete
- copper
- courage
- dew
- diligence
- dirt
- dust
- education
- electricity
- enjoyment
- equipment
- exhaust
- fish
- flour
- food
- fun
- furniture
- garbage
- gold
- graffiti
- grass
- gravity
- happiness
- hardware
- helium
- help
- homework
- honesty
- honey
- housework
- humidity
- hydrogen
- information
- insurance
- justice
- knowledge
- luck
- luggage
- lumber
- macaroni
- mathematics
- measles
- meat
- Mercury
- milk
- money
- moonlight
- music
- neon
- news
- nitrogen
- oxygen
- patience
- pollution
- pork
- poultry
- progress
- reading
- research
- rice
- salt
- sand
- singing
- sleeping
- smallpox
- smog
- smoke
- soccer
- steam
- sugar
- sunlight
- tea
- tennis
- thunder
- traffic
- transportation
- trash
- understanding
- warmth
- water
- weather
- wheat
- wood
- wool
- work
Plural forms for substances are reserved for 'kinds of' or 'types of' such as 'a dish of two rices' means two types of rice used, basmati and wild; a selection of teas, for example black tea, green tea, oolong, and jasmine.
Other mass nouns are expressed amounts or measures:
- cups of rice, bowls of rice
- teaspoons of sugar, pounds of sugar
- tins of tea, glasses of tea
- pieces of furniture, suites of furniture
- tons of aluminum, rolls of aluminum
- volts of electricity, currents of electricity
- some information, pieces of information
- bits of news, a lot of news
- a little advice, pieces of advice
- little knowledge, a great deal of knowledge
Often you hear such things as 'we heard a lot of thunders', or 'the macaronies are ready', these are incorrect.
