For example:

• She saw seven cows in the garden
• There is a cow in the garden.
• Every cow is an animal.

Examples:

Some nouns, like the word time, beauty, fire, death, gossip can be used as either a count noun, or a non-count noun.

For example:

• How much time did it take for you to drive to school?.
  Here, time is a non-count noun, because it refers to a category that contains smaller items (think of it as a "group" of minutes).
• How many times did you take the test before you passed?.
  Here, time is a count noun, because you can count exactly how many separate times you took the test.
• They had a death in the family.
• Death is a tragic thing.
• Supermarkets have aisles for different foods.
• The animals at the zoo wanted food.

The "much" and "many" Rule
Many is used with count nouns.

For example:

• How many papers do you have to write?
• There were too many books required for that class.

For example:

• How much homework did you have last night?
• I had to read so much literature for my English class.

You can use "some" and "any" with countable nouns.
For example:

• Some dogs can be dangerous.
• I don't use any computers at work.

• Many elephants have been hunted.
• There are few elephants in England.

• No computers were bought last week.
• A lot of computers were reported broken the week before.

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