It was a very usuful lesson. Thank you for the lesson. About the lesson, I have two questions. You said 'coffee beans' is uncountable because it is too difficult to count. But 'coffee beans' itself has 's' at the end. How do you count 'coffee beans' then? Could you explain it with some examples? Another question is the word 'furniture'. It is not liquids or previously liquid, and it seems like we can count it. Is there any understandable reason that we cannot count furniture?
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Thank you for the kind comments on the Lesson. There are still a few more things to add so please keep checking back.
On 'Coffee Beans' you are completely correct. They are too small to count but in most everyday circumstances they are counted.
In the recipe for this drink it will say 'add three coffee beans' (countable).
If someone makes coffee too strong you'd say: 'you ground too many coffee beans' (countable) as 'many' is only used for countable nouns.
So, although they are too small to count, they are countable. I've changed the picture.
Furniture
This noun and others like it will come in later lessons. However, I'll explain it now.
Furniture is defined as 'the movable things which make a room suitable'.
Let's look at two pictures.
In the picture on the left we have:
Three sofas
A coffee table
A lamp
Picture frames
Cushions
A rug
and more things
On the right we have:
Two chairs
A lamp
A rug
Both pictures have 'furniture' in them. If we added another chair to the picture on the right there would still be 'furniture'.
In the picture on the left, if we removed a sofa, the picture would still have 'furniture'.
As 'furniture' is all movable items in a room adding one or removing one would keep it having 'furniture'.
This room has no furniture.
This room has some furniture.
This room as a lot of furniture.
The 'countable' form of furniture is: 'piece'.
A chair = a piece of furniture
A table = a piece of furniture
Two lamps = two pieces of furniture
The picture on the left has 'a lot of pieces of furniture'. The picture on the left has 'four pieces of furniture'.