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    The document discusses different quantifiers used with countable and uncountable nouns. It provides examples of quantifiers like some, any, a few, a little, many, much that can be used in a positive, negative or interrogative sense with countables like money, friends and uncountables like time, butter. For example, it shows "Andy has some money" as a positive usage of "some" with the countable "money".

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    The document discusses different quantifiers used with countable and uncountable nouns. It provides examples of quantifiers like some, any, a few, a little, many, much that can be used in a positive, negative or interrogative sense with countables like money, friends and uncountables like time, butter. For example, it shows "Andy has some money" as a positive usage of "some" with the countable "money".

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    Quantifiers

    Countables Uncountables

    (+) Andy has some money.


    Some Andy has some friends.

    (+) A lot of Andy has a lot of money.


    (Lots of) Andy has a lot of friends.

    (?) Does he have any money?


    Does he have any friends?
    Any
    (-) He doesn't have any money.
    He doesn't have any friends.

    A few A little
    (+)
    It's OK. I have a few dollars. It's OK. I have a little time.

    Few A little
    (+)
    Sorry. I have few dollars. Sorry. I have little time.

    Many Much
    Do you need many apples? Do you need much butter?
    (?) How many apples do you need? How much butter do you need?

    Not many. Not much.


    (-) We don't need many apples. We don't need much butter.

    We have many apples. We have much butter. Possible but not very frequent
    (+) We have so many apples. We have so much butter.
    We have too many apples. We have too much butter.

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