Only with uncountable nouns | With uncountable and countable nouns | Only with countable nouns |
How much? | How much? or How many? | How many? |
a little | no/none | a few |
a bit (of) | not any | a number (of) |
- | some (any) | several |
a great deal of | a lot of | a large number of |
a large amount of | plenty of | a great number of |
- | lots of | - |
+ noun
Note: much and many are used in negative and question forms.
Examples
They are also used with too, (not) so, and (not) as :There were too many people at the concert - we couldn't see the band.
It's a problem when there are so many people. There's not so much work to do this week.
In positive statements, we use a lot of:
Examples
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Monday, November 5, 2018
Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
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