6.

Countable and uncountable

nouns | Quantifiers
When do we use quantifiers?

We use quantifiers to talk about quantities of food.

There’s some salad in the fridge, but there

isn’t any cheese.

There weren’t many bananas, but there were

a lot of grapes.

We’ve got too much juice and we haven’t got

enough sandwiches.

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 Read the text. Which quantifiers come before
countable nouns? Which come before uncountable
nouns?

My dad eats enough vegetables and he doesn’t eat

many sweets. But he eats too many chips and too
much cheese, and he doesn’t drink enough water.
Everyone else in my family is healthy. We eat some
fish, but we don’t eat much meat, and we don’t eat
any chocolate or any sweets. We usually have a
lot of salad or peas with our dinner and some
grapes or other fruit for pudding.

Before countable nouns:enough, (too) many, any, a lot of, some

Before uncountable nouns:(too) much, enough, some, any, a lot of
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How do we make sentences with
quantifiers?
Countable nouns Uncountable nouns
many / much How many bottles of water have we got? How much water is in that bottle?
I haven’t got many hobbies. I haven’t got much time.
some / a lot of I bought some bananas. She bought some popcorn.

We eat a lot of oranges. We eat a lot of cheese.

We don’t eat a lot of apples. We don’t eat a lot of bread.
any Have you got any biscuits? Have you got any sugar?

There aren’t any eggs in the fridge. There isn’t any milk in the fridge.
too / enough There are too manyolives on my pizza. There’s too much ice in my drink.

There aren’t enough mushrooms. There isn’t enough orange juice.

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 Practice Time
Circle the correct words in the restaurant review.

Stewie’s Steakhouse looks nice but it’s very small. There are too 1many / much tables so there isn’t

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some / much space – you feel like you’re eating in a phone box! There aren’t 3many / much things on the

menu and there aren’t 4some / any vegetarian dishes, so there’s nothing that vegetarians can eat. My food

wasn’t great. I had a steak and 5some / too chips. There was 6a lot of / many meat on my plate (about a

kilo!) but it wasn’t very good. There weren’t 7too / enough chips, and they were cold. And there was 8too /

enough much salt in every dish – even the pudding was salty! Finally, they didn’t have 9some / any juice or

cola, only water from the tap!

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