He gave me an advice.

He gave me some advice. He gave me two pieces of advice.

I have some (a lot of ) homework. I have three assignments.

I heard some news. I heard two pieces of news.

The students are going home.

Everyone is going home. Each of the students is going home.

All the things are on the table. Everything is on the table.

The water is on the table. The bottles are on the table.

The water in the bottles is on the table.

The bottles of water are on the table.

Mountains certainly again rain train maintain

(e) (ei)

There is a chair in the room. A = 1

There is a large number of…… = quantity = There is a large amount of …

Many = a lot of = lots of much = a lot of = lots of

There are tables in the room. There is water in the fridge.

There are many tables in the room. There is much water in the fridge.

There are a lot of tables in the room. There is a lot of water in the fridge.

There are lots of tables in the room. There is lots of water in the fridge.

Few (not many)

a few (not many) there are more than what you expected.

Little (not much)

A little (not much) There is more than what you expected.

We don’t have much time to talk. (time =noncount)

Yeah, There aren’t many times that me meet. (time = count)

I want a little chicken for dinner.

 Indefinite (general) definite (specific)

Singular count a hotel the hotel

Plural count cars the cars

Non-counts ------- Water is good. The water on the table is mine.

NOUN = The crowd was huge.

Verb = Don’t crowd the hall way. People need to go out.

Adjective = It was a crowded room.

NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE ADVERB

beauty beautify Beautiful beautifully

truth --- true truly

death die dead deadly

deadly

Chairman Chairwoman Chairperson

Actor/actress

Change of gender Change of species 1945