Individual nouns and collective nouns are usually countable nouns(nouns that have dural and which can collocate with numbers and with such determiners as a, an, many few these, several, etc)while material nouns and abstract nouns are usually uncountable nouns (nouns that can not go with the above mentioned determiners)Individual nouns and collective nouns are usually countable nouns (nouns that have plural and which can collocate with numbers and with such determiners as a, an, many few, these, several, etc) while material nouns and abstract nouns are usually uncountable nouns (nouns that can not go with the above mentioned determiners)