countable nouns, uncountable nouns, and abstract nouns

[Anh_Email817]

I am really confused with the nouns above along with much and many. my first question is: would u say how much hours do you work in a week or how many hours do u work in a week? the answer for instant is I work for 5 hours.Which question would be correct? Aren't hours, days, and months take on as an uncountable noun? if it is true, can i say 5 hrs is along time. Now back to much and many. Do i say there are many challenges or much challenges since u can say there are 5 challenges. sorry i am just really confused right now. I would appreciate it if you could just explain to me thoroughly about much, many, countable, uncountable, and abtract nouns.

[Skrej]

You should say 'How many hours do you work a week' since you can actually count the number of hours. The same applies for days, weeks, months, and years.

You can say "Five hours is a long time", because although it's 5 hours, it's considered one big single group of time.

You should say "There are many challenges."

'Much' is used with uncountable nouns, 'many' with count nouns'

Abstract nouns are simply nouns that you can't physically see, touch, hear, smell, or taste. For example, 'love'. You can't actually see love. You can see when somebody is in love, and you may know when you're in love, but you can't see 'love' itself.

Count nouns are things that you can physically count. For example, chairs. You can count the number of chairs in the room.

Non count nouns are things that you can't count. For example, 'ice'. You can't count ice, although you can count the pieces of ice.
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[Skrej]

Much art is abstract, yes, but not all. You can blame the Impressionists, but Grog the caveman did it too.
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