Landelijke Kennis Toets – LKT – Engels – Summary
, GRAMMAR A
Word class, part of speech.
Noun = identifies a person, thing, idea, quality or state such as anger, courage, life, luckiness
etc.
Articles (Lidwoorden): The – A – An most commonly used in front of the noun.
Example: the dog, a dog, an apple. There are uncountable nouns & countable nouns
Uncountable nouns: Used with singular verbs, we cannot use it with articles: a/an & cannot add the
letter -s. Example words: sugar, water, air, rice, music, knowledge, beauty, anger, fear, love, money,
spaghetti, research, safety, evidence, bred, news, traffic, trouble, snow, work.
You cannot count these words one music, two music(s) – this doesn’t exist. Therefore, music is an
uncountable noun.
Countable nouns: have singular & plural forms +s. You can count the noun and almost always add
the letter -s, except with irregular nouns made plural. For example: one man – forty men / one
woman – twelve women. Regular nouns one girl, two girls / one table, four tables.