| Uncountable nouns | Partitives |
| sadness | a twinge of |
| saliva | a dribble of |
| salt | a grain/pinch of |
| sand | a grain of |
| sauce | a dash/drop of |
| seal | a colony of |
| scorn | a shout of |
| similarity | a degree of |
| skepticism/ skepticism | a pinch of |
| skill | a degree/level/range/set of |
| sleep | a snatch of |
| smoke | a cloud/puff/wisp of |
| snow | a flake of; flakes of |
| soap | a bar/cake of |
| soda | a dash of |
| soup | a bowl/cup/mug/packet/tin of |
| spaghetti | a strand of |
| speed | a burst of |
| stamp | a book/set/sheet of |
| steam | a cloud, jet of |
| steel | a strip of |
| stone | a slab of |
| stubbornness | a streak of |
| sugar | a cube/lump/pinch/spoonful/bag/ packet of |
| sunlight | a shaft of |