The Count Noun Recognize a count noun when you see one. Nouns name people, places, and things. Many nouns have both singular and plural forms. If you can add a number to the front of a noun and put an -s at the end of it, you have a count noun. Jeremy, an impolite pig, grabbed all seventeen cookies off of the plate.
Cookie is a count noun.
You can have one cookie, or you can be a pig like Jeremy and have seventeen cookies . Remember that some nouns are noncount . You cannot count all nouns. To make noncount nouns plural would be illogical. Rudeness is an example of a noncount noun.