QUANTIFIERS

ALL/ EVERY/MOST
1. Use ALL or ALL (OF) THE + plural/uncountable noun
ALL – for something in general
All animals need food.

ALL OF THE = for something specific

All of the animals in this zoo look unhappy.

*ALL can be used before a main verb (and after “to be”)
The animals all looked sad.
*ALL can’t be used without a noun
2. Use EVERYTHING/EVERYBODY + singular verb
Everything is very expensive.
3. Use MOST to say the majority.
MOST = general
Most people live in cities.
MOST OF = specific
Most of the students in this class are girls.
4. We often use ALL / MOST OF + an object pronoun
All of us
Most of them
All of you
Most of it
All of us work hard and most of us come to class every week.
5. Use EVERY + singular countable noun to mean “all of a group”
Every room has a bathroom.
Every + time expressions = every day /all day

NO / NONE/ ANY
1. Use NO + a noun + a positive verb or
ANY + a noun + a negative verb to refer to zero quantity
ANY can also be used without a noun.
Is there any milk?
Sorry, there is no milk.
There isn’t any (milk).
2. Use NONE in short answers or with positive verb to refer to zero quantity.
You can also use none + of + pronoun/noun.
Is there any food? –No, none. / There is none.
None of us are hungry.
3. Use ANY (and anything, anyone, etc) and a positive verb to mean it doesn’t matter when, who,
etc.
Come any weekend! Anyone can come.

BOTH / NEITHER / EITHER

1. Use BOTH/EITHER/NEITHER to talk about two people, things or actions.
Both = A and B
Either = A or B
Neither = not A and not B
  Use positive verb
 The verb is plural with ‘both’
 It can be singular or plural with ‘neither’
Both me and my brother were born in London.
Neither she nor her sister was/were at home.
She wanted to study either Physics or Chemistry at university. In the end, she studied both
subjects.
2. When BOTH refers to the subject of the clause it can be used before a main verb:
She and her husband both won Nobel prizes.
3. We often use : BOTH OF / EITHER OF /NEITHER OF + object pronoun (us, them)
+ THE + noun
Neither of them realized how dangerous the experiment was.
Both of the scientists had the same results.