Uncountable Nouns

Some nouns are not countable and are called uncountable nouns or mass nouns.  

For example, the word clutter is a mass noun.

That garage is full of clutter.

This sentence makes grammatical sense.

However, the following example does not.

That garage is full of clutters.

Mass nouns cannot take plural forms.

Substances, liquids, and powders are entities that are often signified by mass nouns such as wood, sand, water, and flour.

Other examples would be milk, air, furniture, freedom, rice, and intelligence.

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Utterance

In spoken language analysis an utterance is a smallest unit of speech. It is a continuous piece of speech beginning and ending with a clear pause. In the case of oral languages, it is generally but not always bounded by silence. 

Utterances do not exist in written language, only their representations do. They can be represented and delineated in written language in many ways.

In oral/spoken language utterances have several features including paralinguistic features which are aspects of speech such as facial expression, gesture, and posture.

Prosodic features include stress, intonation, and tone of voice, as well as ellipsis, which are words that the listener inserts in spoken language to fill gaps. Moreover, other aspects of utterances found in spoken languages are non-fluency features including: voiced/un-voiced pauses (like "umm"), tag questions, and false starts when someone begins their utterances again to correct themselves.

Other features include: fillers ("and stuff"); accent/dialect; deictic expressions, which are utterances like "over there!" which need further explanation to be understood; simple conjunctions ("and," "but," etc.); and colloquial lexis which are everyday informal words.

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