a. It seems to me that we've had assignments in English this term.
How material can we be expected to read in
one week?
books are not in the library.
I've had headaches already because of stress.
depression can be attributed to being
overworked.
MUCH | MANY | FEW |
LITTLE | ENOUGH | A LOT OF | SOME | ANY |
There are too expeditions.
No, I don't have any. But I have apples, if you'd like to make apple
juice instead.
Climbers need equipment.
There is only a oxygen in the air at high altitudes.
At low altitudes, there is oxygen in the air.
There is too rubbish.
There are broken glass on the mountain.
There are people trying to go to the U2 concert
this weekend
Wow! Look at that! How books do you have on your shelf? I have
to tell you, it's quite a great collection!
Would you like juice?
How money do you have?
I only have dollars.
I want to make orange juice. Have you got oranges?
How many gallons of water did you bring for the trip?
— I just have gallons.
Jessica spent a lot of money on her car. Now she only has
money left to pay for her living
expenses.
How time do you have left before you have to
go to school?
MUCH | MANY | FEW |
LITTLEWhen we got to the beach, people were already there, and we couldn't find
a place to sit down. There were a empty spaces near one end of the beach, but they
were a long way from the sea. We walked along the beach for a while, but we didn't have fun because we kept bumping into people. Finally,
we decided to get back in the car and go down the coast to the
next beach. This was much better; there were only a families on the beach, so there was more room to spread out our things. Because we
had eaten so food in the car, all we wanted to do was lie
down, and after a minutes we were all dozing happily in the sun.CHOOSE THE RIGHT QUANTIFIER
I haven't got much / many money today.
I've got a few / a little fruit and a lot of / many vegetables.
They don't seem to have much / many free time these days.
He has only read a few / a little chapters of that new book, but he likes
it.
Does he show much / many interest in sports ? Yes, a lot
/ a lot of .
There aren’t many / much huge buildings and traffic problems in
the small cities so there is no / any stress there.
SOME, ANY, A LITTLE, A
FEW, NO
How was your skiing weekend ? Terrible ! There
wasn’t snow on the mountains.
Hurry up ! There is time to waste. The bus will be here soon.
What would you like in your coffee ? Just sugar, please.
There are still tickets left for the concert on Friday
night.
I bought great books from the book-fair this
afternoon.
MUCH, MANY, A LITTLE,
LITTLE, A FEW, FEW
There aren't mountains
in Holland.
You need only sugar for
this cake.
children
know what the capital of Madagascar is.
Have you got friends?
I don't like salt in
my food.
people
would like to win the lottery.
Only of those
books are fun to read.
In Africa children
have food.
Could I have milk,
please?
There are songs
about love.
But singers
like to sing about steam trains.
I know very about
spiders -- I am afraid of
them.
MUCH | MANY | LOTS OF |
A LOT OF | A LITTLE | MOST | LITTLE | FEW
It seems to me that we've had assignments in English this term.
How material can we be expected to read in
one week?
books are not in the library.
I've had headaches already because of stress.
depression can be attributed to being
overworked.
Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too weeds.
I didn't use fertilizer last spring, and that has
made a difference.
Also, I've paid attention to how rain we've had.
I'm afraid it's rained times this summer, and the grass is
turning brown and dying.
experts say you should fertilize your
lawn in the fall.
It didn't seem to do my lawn good.
advice you get from experts doesn't seem
to help.
of my neighbors ignore their grass, and
they have better lawns this year.
They say knowledge is a bad thing.
I know instances where that proves true.
people know as much about computers as
Tomas does.
But it does him good when the whole system goes down.
SO | SUCH + MANY | MUCH
or alone
I have been to Paris times.
We got really drunk at the party last night and behaved
like idiot.
They used to have fun together.
The test is harder than the last one.
The bar was really packed last night.
There were people there.
The guitar player was good.
students have a problem with this exercise.
This movie was worse than he told me it would be.
I cannot believe you lived there for years.
That is good idea.
A FEW | A GREAT DEAL |
A LITTLE | A LOT | A LOT OF | A MAJORITY OF | ENOUGH | MANY |
MUCH OF | PLENTY | SEVERAL OF | SOME
I'm having of trouble passing my driving exam.
the movies were rated PG.
information proved to be outdated.
We're close to the project deadline, but there is
still time left.
Although there are brilliant students in this state --
thousands, even, only will choose to remain in the state
after graduation.
We were able to destroy the parasites with our antigen, but of them survived to cause trouble.
a student has passed through these
doors.
Although of the lawn is open to the sun, there
are of shade trees to make it
comfortable.
I think he drank wine last night.
the evidence was taken from the
police safe last night.
The following quantifiers will work with count
nouns: many trees a few trees few trees several trees a couple of
trees none of the
treesThe following quantifiers will work with non-count
nouns: not much
dancing a little
dancing little dancing a bit of
dancing a good deal of
dancing a great deal of
dancing no dancingThe
following quantifiers will work with both count and
non-count nouns: all of the
trees/dancing some trees/dancing most of the
trees/dancing enough trees/dancing a lot of trees/dancing lots of trees/dancing plenty of
trees/dancing a lack of
trees/dancing
more than "normal" or expected
a lot of
quite a few
a lot of
quite a little
(no expectation -- "some,"
not "many")
a few
a little
less than "normal" or expected
only a few
just a few
very few
few
not many
only a little
just a little
very little
little
not much
count nouns only
(whole units) (no a)
+ sing.noun
+ pl. noun
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