BRITISH PEOPLE (noun) Sense 1 British people Meaning: The people of Great Britain Classified under: Nouns denoting

people Synonyms: British; British people; Brits Hypernyms ("British people" is a kind of...): country; land; nation (the people who live in a nation or country)

Some nouns in English are uncount nouns. We do not use uncount nouns in the plural and we do not use them with the indefinite article, a/an. We ate a lot of foods > We ate a lot of food We bought some new furnitures > We bought some new furniture Thats a useful information > Thats useful information We can use some quantifiers with uncount nouns: He gave me some useful advice. They gave us a lot of information. Uncount nouns often refer to:

Substances: food; water; wine; salt; bread; iron Human feelings or qualities: anger; cruelty; happiness; honesty; pride;

Activities: help; sleep; travel; work Abstract ideas: beauty; death; fun; life

Common uncount nouns There are some common nouns in English, like accommodation, which are uncount nouns even though they have plurals in other languages: advice baggage equipment furniture homework information knowledge luggage machinery money news traffic Let me give you some advice. How much luggage have you got? If we want to make these things countable, we use expressions like: a piece of... pieces of... a bit of... bits of... an item of... items of...

Let me give you a piece of advice. Thats a useful piece of equipment. We bought a few bits of furniture for the new apartment. She had six separate items of luggage. but we do not use accommodation, money and traffic in this way. count nouns Count nouns have two forms: singular and plural. The singular form refers to one person or thing: a book; a teacher; a wish; an idea The plural form refers to more than one person or thing: books; teachers; wishes; ideas

Singular count nouns Singular count nouns cannot be used alone. They must have a determiner: the book; that English teacher; a wish; my latest idea or a quantifier: some new books; a few teachers; lots of good ideas or a numeral: two new books; three wishes Plural forms: We usually add s to make a plural noun: book > books; school > schools; friend > friends We add -es to nouns ending in ss; -ch; -s; -sh; -x class > classes; watch > watches; gas > gases; wish > wishes; box > boxes When a noun ends in a consonant and -y we make the plural in -ies... lady > ladies; country > countries; party > parties but if a noun ends in a vowel and -y we simply add -s: boy > boys; day > days; play > plays Some common nouns have irregular plurals: Man > men; woman > women; child > children; foot > feet; person > people Plural count nouns do not have a determiner when they refer to people or things as a group: Computers are very expensive. Do you sell old books?

Both tenses have a continuous form. These continuous tenses are formed with the verb be and the ing form of the verb: We use continuous aspect:

for something happening before and after a given time.

Hes getting on the train. [before and after the moment of speaking] It was quarter past ten. We were watching the news on television.

for something continuing before and after another action:

Mother will be cooking the dinner when we get home. We were waiting for the bus when it started to rain.

for something continuing for some time:

Everybody will be waiting for us. They had been working hard all day.

for something happening again and again:

Theyve been doing that every day this week. The children were always shouting. He will be practising the piano every night.

for something temporary:

We are renting an apartment until our house is ready.. He was working in a garage during the vacation.

for something new:

We have moved from Birmingham. Were living in Manchester now. He had left university and was working in his fathers business.

to describe something changing or developing:

Everything has been getting more difficult. He was growing more bad-tempered every day.