AMOUNTS AND COMPARISONS Quantifiers We use quantifiers with nouns to talk about how much or how many of something there is. Basic quantifiers include some, any, much, many, a lot of and no. Did many people come to the product launch event? Sorry, | don’t have a lot of time right now.Fractions and percentages We use quantifiers such as a little over, about, and nearly with fractions and percentages to express approximate quantities. These are often used when we're talking about data. ] Alittle over a the have a credit With quarter of students card. | countable or About half of Tie = | | uncountable Nearly three Haga cradte nouns quarters of the class | ord. | Fifty per cent of | Note: Phrases with these expressions can function as singular or plural, depending on the nouns they modify. The verb agrees with the noun, not with the quantifier.Describing large quantities We use the following quantifiers to express large quantities. With uncountable | nouns “With countable nouns With both Alarge amount of | A great deal of The (vast) majority of A considerable number of Asizeable portion of illegal activity takes place online. international criminals speak two languages. | fraud that’s committed is never reported. the victims never get | their money back. Note: Phrases with a large amount of, a great deal of, and a sizeable portion of are always followed by singular verbs. Phrases with the vast majority of and a considerable number of function as plural nouns and are always followed by plural verbs.Describing small quantities We use the following quantifiers to express small quantities. With uncountable | A small amount of | his income is from nouns Asmall portion of | illegal sources. With countable A (small) minority the cases of nouns of identity theft A handful of involve stolen Atiny number of __ passports. With both Virtually none of Phrases with a small amount of and a small portion of are always followed by singular verbs. The other expressions above function as plural nouns and are always followed by plural verbs.Comparing amounts We use the following quantifiers to compare two amounts. With uncountable nouns We had halfasmuch — identity theft as we had twice as much |S ¥°a" ieee | | year. With countable nouns | ‘We had halfas many | cases of as we had Rnicoine: identity theft that last month | month. umber of / twice as many | With both ; : = Today's | about the yesterday's. | earnings | samo.as/ | were similar to1 Choose the correct option to complete the sentences. 1 Nearly three quarters of our budget is / are spent on research and development. 2 Over 50 per cent of our materials come / comes from local suppliers. 3 Agreat deal of money seem / seems to be missing. 4 The majority of phones reported stolen is / are never recovered. 5 Asizeable portion of my work involve / involves using the computer. 6 Asmall amount of wasted time isn’t / aren’t a problem. Virtually none of the products | need is / are available. 8 Only a handful of shareholders attend / attends the AGM each year. N2 Match the two parts of the sentences. 1 2 A large amount There were twice A small portion of A handful Aconsiderable The doctor had half as many b my salary goes into a retirement plan. number of our students will go to top universities. as many teachers as students at the party. patients today as he had yesterday. of money was stolen last night. of my friends speak English.3 Choose the correct aption te complete the sentences. hore ast uae aad a a 7 a8 180 OF 2 HR CIE GON 3 Aconstdtabio numbor/nanchs 2 & small porton/ The vest (fou cles peter aoe st nut 0 our eustorers ae coutsee Cha. 11 We s01 te as many ch Uns the secon quar ome user 4 We nad hal as many 2 weawio 15 Net income inthe second quatt waste same sir a2 et portion of fut pods reared Inino socend avarr. Income te fest quar,4 Complete the sentences with these expressions. majority none percent portion quarter similar 4 Nearly 50____of Mr Smith's personal wealth was stolen. 2 The vast___ of Internet users share some. financial details online. 3 Asmall____ of local police time is spent investigating online crime. 4 Virtually ____ of the information that was stolen was password-protected, 5 This year's income was _______to last year's. 6 Allittle overa__ of my work time is spent writing emails.5 Correct the mistake in each sentence. 1 Nearly three quarter of the applications included false information. A great deal fraud is conducted across international borders. There were twice number of reported cases this year. This month's crime figures are similar of last month's. A handful of passports was stolen in February. We had half as many case of credit card fraud reported as usual for this time of year.