Large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

Common nouns are everywhere. Look around you now and you will see many common nouns: door, window, tree, sky, cat, truck, road, computer, phone, bottle, ball, luggage, people, hair.

usage note: Baggage is an uncount noun. You can have a piece of baggage or some baggage but you cannot have ‘a baggage’ or ‘some baggages’. Both British and American speakers can refer to everything that travellers carry as their bags. American speakers can also call an individual suitcase a bag.

luggage

As nouns the difference between luggage and suitcase is that luggage is the bags and other containers that hold a traveller’s belongings while suitcase is large (usually rectangular) piece of luggage used for carrying clothes, and sometimes suits, when travelling.

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Information is an uncountable noun meaning ‘facts about someone or something’.

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“Where is your luggage?” makes more sense. Luggage does not have a plural form and can be addressed as one single thing. If you expressed luggage as, for example, a suitcase, then 2. would be correct.

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Uncountable Nouns with ‘ARE’, ‘IS’ and ‘IS A’, a little confused I am a little confused about the use of ‘are’ and ‘is’, ‘is a’ with uncountable nouns. The ‘software’ is an uncountable noun but there are a lot of instances in search results from Internet, such as – “Free software” is a matter of liberty.

Uncountable Nouns

• music, art, love, happiness.
• advice, information, news.
• furniture, luggage.
• rice, sugar, butter, water.
• electricity, gas, power.
• money, currency.

Countable (or count) nouns are words which can be counted. They have a singular form and a plural form. They usually refer to things. Most countable nouns become plural by adding an ‘s’ at the end of the word.

Any substance that is or can be consumed by living organisms, especially by eating, in order to sustain life. “The innkeeper brought them food and drink.”

(transitive) To give (someone or something) food to eat. (intransitive) To eat (usually of animals). (transitive) To give (someone or something) to (someone or something else) as food. (transitive) To give to a machine to be processed.

Verbs

Sale is a noun, sell is a verb (simple present) and sold is the simple past and past participle form of sell.

verb. proofed; proofing; proofs.

behave. (reflexive) To conduct (oneself) well, or in a given way. (intransitive) To act, conduct oneself in a specific manner; used with an adverbial of manner. (obsolete, transitive) To conduct, manage, regulate (something).

verb (used with object), pu·ri·fied, pu·ri·fy·ing. to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.

(intransitive) To produce musical or harmonious sounds with one’s voice. (transitive) To express audibly by means of a harmonious vocalization. (transitive) To soothe with singing.

uncountable noun

Countable Nouns

• dog, cat, animal, man, person.
• bottle, box, litre.
• coin, note, dollar.
• cup, plate, fork.
• table, chair, suitcase, bag.

If something is uncountable, you cannot count how many of that thing there are. For Example: knowledge, rice and air. We don’t count all the grains of rice in a bowl – we just ask for rice. Unlike countable nouns, uncountable nouns do not have a plural form.

rise (verb) rise (noun) high–rise (adjective)

(countable) A chocolate is an individual candy that is made of or covered in chocolate. These homemade chocolates are delicious. (uncountable) Chocolate is a dark brown colour.

How can you identify a noun? If you can put the word the in front of a word and it sounds like a unit, the word is a noun. For example, the boy sounds like a unit, so boy is a noun. The chair sounds like a unit, so chair is a noun.