verb / noun · neutral
count
/kaʊnt/COUNT
Band 5-6speakingtask2
to say numbers to find a total; the total number of something
Examples
“She can count to a hundred without stopping.”
“There was a count of all the votes.”
“He couldn't count how many times he'd tried.”
Band 8 sentence
“The charity received countless donations after the appeal, overwhelming the small organising team.”
Collocations
- count the votes
- count on somebody
- countless number (of)
Word family
count v / ncountless adjcountable adjcounter n
Common mistakes
There is countless people in the stadium.→There are countless people in the stadium.
I have a countless books.→I have countless books.
Say it for a higher band
5many→6numerous→7+countless
Synonyms
numerous
many
Easily confused
numerous
“There were numerous complaints about the service last month.”
many
“Many students attended the lecture.”
Related words
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In -ful / -less
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