QUANTIFIERS

SOME, ANY, NO, A LOT OF (LOTS OF), A NUMBER OF, MANY, MUCH

A DOZEN (A HUNDRED), DOZENS OF (HUNDREDS OF)

COUNTABLE NOUNS

How many tomatoes are there?

Are there any/many tomatoes?

There are a lot of (lots of) tomatoes.

There are too many tomatoes.

There are some (a number of) tomatoes. – a number of (= more than two but fewer than
many)

There aren’t many tomatoes.

There aren’t any tomatoes. / There are no tomatoes.

UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

How much water is there?

Is there any/much water?

There is a lot of/lots of water.

There is some (a bit of) water.

There is too much water.

There isn’t much water.

There isn’t any water. / There is no water.

We use some in the affirmative (+).

Some – offers and requests: Would you like some pizza?/ Can I have some juice?

We use any in the negative and interrogative (-,?).

dozens/ hundreds of VS a dozen/ a hundred (= MANY, A LARGE NUMBER)

There are dozens of (hundreds of) dishes to choose from.

There are a dozen (a hundred) dishes to choose from.