Lesson 375 Quantifiers

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Quantifiers

1. Quantifiers are adjectives and adjectival phrases that give approximate or specific answers to the questions 'How much?' and 'How many?'

In simple words, we use quantifiers when we want to give someone information about the number of something: how much or how many.
'Some', 'many', 'a lot of' and 'a few' are examples of quantifiers.
E.g.
i) There aresomebooks on the desk.
ii) He's got onlya fewdollars.
iii) Howmuchmoney have you got?
iv) There isa large quantity offish in this river.
v) He's gotmorefriends than his sister.

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2. Quantifiers can be used with both可数名词和不可数名词.

i) Countable Nouns (Count nouns):
'Countable nouns' have a singular and a plural form. In plural, these nouns can be used with a number - they can be counted. (That's why they are called 'countable nouns').
E.g. 1 friend, 2 friends, 3 friends...
1 book, 2 books, 3 books...

'Many' is a quantifier that is used with countable nouns.

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ii) Uncountable nouns (non-count nouns):
Uncountable nounscan only be used in singular. These nouns cannot be used with a number - they can't be counted. (That's why they are called 'uncountable nouns').
E.g. a) I have a lot of money. (Not 1000money)
b) You say I drink a lot of milk. (Not 5milk)

Uncountable nouns take 'much'.
E.g. 'Much' money

Note: You can count money, milk, meat; but then, you would use: the currency, liter, kilo, glass; and say that you have got:
5 euros or dollars (but not 5money).
Uncountable nouns are measured with count frames like liter, kilos etc.

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3. Quantifiers with Uncountable Nouns:
• much
• a little/little/very little *
• a bit (of)
• a great deal of
• a large amount of
• a large quantity of

*Note:'little', 'very little' mean that there is not enough of something.
'A little' means that there is not a lot of something, but there is enough.

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4. Quantifiers with Countable Nouns
• many
• a few/few/very few **
• a number (of)
several
• a large number of
• a great number of
• a majority of
**NOTE'few', 'very few' mean that there is not enough of something.
'A few' means that there is not a lot of something, but there is enough.

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Sometimes we use a 'quantifier' in the place of a 'determiner'.
E.g. i) Most children start school at the age of five.
ii) We ate some bread and butter.
iii) We saw lots of birds.

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5. Quantifiers with Countable and Uncountable nouns:
• all
• enough
• more/most
• less/least
• no/none
• not any
• some
• any
• a lot of
• lots of
• plenty of

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Pick the correct option:

He has ______

few

a few

Pick the correct option:

I went through ______

many

Pick the correct option:

He has ______

any

Pick the correct option:

I had ______

lots of

a lot of

Pick the correct option:

Can you give me ______

couple of

a bit of

Pick the correct option:

I can't go out this evening. I've got ______

too much

too many

Pick the correct option:

He can't buy the form. He has got ______

little

a little

few

a few

Pick the correct option:

The train leaves in one hour. I am scared there is ______

little

a little

Arrange the jumbled words to form a sentence.

উপযুক্ত শব্দ বোৰ শুদ্ধক্ৰমত বাচনি কৰক

• a little
• learn
• everyday we
• English
• many
• few

Pick the correct option:

They say, ______

little

a little

few

a few

Arrange the jumbled words to form a sentence.

উপযুক্ত শব্দ বোৰ শুদ্ধক্ৰমত বাচনি কৰক

• Does she
• some sisters?
• have
• any sisters?

Pick the correct option:

It is good that she has ______

a few

few

Pick the correct option:

I can't drink this coffee. There isn't ______

enough

too much

too many

Pick the correct option:

A great ______

number

deal

Pick the correct option:

All members are valuable to us and ______

each

every

Pick the correct option:

I know that Tim has ______

a few

few

Pick the correct option:

There has been almost ______

no

none

Pick the correct option:

Celine feels lonely because she has very ______

few

much

little

Pick the correct option:

Our yard looks awful this summer. There are too ______

many

much

Pick the correct option:

Also, I've paid very ______

little attention to how much rain we've had.

a little attention to how many rain we've had.

much attention to how much rain we've had.

a few attention to how little rain we've had.

Pick the correct option:

They said that just ______

a little

few

a few

little

Pick the correct option:

I'm afraid it has rained ______

few

a few

Pick the correct option:

I've unfortunately had ______

a lot of

much

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