Examples...

Below we see examples of all these properties for the count noun chair and the mass noun furniture. As always in discussion

* Occurrence in plural/singular.

There is a chair in the room.
There are chairs in the room.
✗ There is a furniture in the room.
✗ There are furnitures in the room.

* Co-occurrence with count determiners

Every chair is man made.
There are several chairs in the room.
✗ Every furniture is man made.
✗ There are several furnitures in the room.

Some determiners can be used with both mass and count nouns, including "some", "a lot (of)", "no". Others cannot: "few" and "many" are used with count items, "little" and "much" with mass. (On the other hand "fewer" is reserved for count and "less" for mass, but "more" is the proper comparative for both "many" and "much".)


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