GRAMMAR – QUANTIFIER LEVEL 4 G

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https://www.grammar.cl/Intermediate/Very_Too_Enough.htm (VIDEO)

What are quantifiers?

A quantifier is a word or phrase which is used before a noun to indicate the amount or quantity:

'Some', 'many', 'a lot of' and 'a few' are examples of quantifiers.

Quantifiers can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.

Examples:

There are some books on the desk. He's got only a few dollars.

How much money have you got? There is a large quantity of fish in this river.

He's got more friends than his sister.

Examples of quantifiers

With Uncountable Nouns With Both

Much All enough

a little/little/very little * more/most less/least
no/none not any
a bit (of) a great deal of some any
a lot of lots of
a large amount of a large quantity of plenty of

With Countable Nouns
many
a few/few/very few **
* NOTE
little, very little mean that there is not enough
several of something.
a little means that there is not a lot of
something, but there is enough.

a number (of) a great number of ** NOTE

few, very few mean that there is not enough of
a large number of a majority of something.
a few means that there is not a lot of
something, but there is enough.
AFTER READING THE RULES FOR QUANTIFIERS. COMPLETE THE EXERCISE

Choose the correct quantifier.

1. They have had ____________ homework in mathematics recently.

2. How ___________________ time do you need to finish the work?
3. There are too________________________ students in the library.
4. Have you visited ________________________ foreign countries?
5. Although he's very ill, he didn't take _______________medicine.
6. __________people know as much about linguistics as John does.
7. They say ____________________ knowledge is a dangerous thing.
8. He's having ________________ of trouble passing his driving test.
9. I spend __________________________ of my time reading novels.
10. He knows __________ English. He knows enough English to manage.
11. He speaks___________ Spanish, so we were able to find a nice room in Madrid.
12. There are only _____________ bananas left in the box.
13. We need____________________ butter for this cake.
14. The teacher gives us_____________ time to prepare before a test.
15. There are only ________________ days left to hand in the reports.
16. That's_______________________ interesting job!
17. They have found_______________ gold in that old mine.
18. Do the Smiths have _______________ yellow van?
19. Look! He's having _________________ water.
20. He always likes_____________ piece of chocolate.
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