UNIT 4 – QUANTIFIERS

A) COUNTABLE NOUNS

MANY – There are many advantages in saving money.

A FEW – Credit–cards have a few advantages.

FEW – Few people can use credit-cards.

FEWER – There are fewer students in our class this semester.

SEVERAL – Alice has several friends.

A ( NUMBER OF, A BUNCH OF, A COUPLE OF ) – She’s been going through

a number of problems.

EVERY – Every student has bought the reader.

B) UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

MUCH – She doesn’t surf on the net during the week, because she doesn’t have much time.

A LITTLE – I have a little money to spend.

LITTLE – I have little patience with finance.

LESS – There is less money in my bank account than I expected.

AN AMOUNT OF – We need a certain amount of money to finish the construction.

ALL – We ate all (of) the food.

C) WITH BOTH COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE

NO / NONE - No information / None of the information we were given was helpful.

No buses / None of the buses that run after midnight stop here.

HARDLY ANY – Hardly any of the time we spent in class was used for review.
There are hardly any students in class today,

SOME / ANY – You need some advice / some new clothes.

Did you save any money ? / Do you have any solutions ?

ALMOST ALL - We ate almost all (of) the food.

Almost all (of) the students passed the exam.

A LOT OF / LOTS OF – She has lots of / a lot of friends.

PLENTY OF – Plenty of us are credit–cards junkies.