Monday, November 5, 2018

Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns

Only with
uncountable nouns
With uncountable
and countable nouns
Only with
countable nouns
How much?How much? or How many?How many?
a littleno/nonea few
a bit (of)not anya number (of)
-some (any)several
a great deal ofa lot ofa large number of
a large amount ofplenty ofa great number of
-lots of-
+ noun

Note: much and many are used in negative and question forms.

Examples

  • How much money have you got?
  • How many cigarettes have you smoked?
  • There's not much sugar in the cupboard.
  • There weren't many people at the concert.
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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