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QUANTIFIERS
Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
Adjectives and adjectival phrases that describe quantity are shown below. Some can only go with countable nouns (friends, cups, people), and some can only go with uncountable nouns (sugar, tea, money, advice). The words in the middle column can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.
| Only
with uncountable nouns |
With
uncountable and countable nouns |
Only
with countable nouns |
| How much? | How much? or How many? | How many? |
| a little | no/none | a few |
| a bit (of) | not any | a number (of) |
| - | some (any) | several |
| a great deal of | a lot of | a large number of |
| a large amount of | plenty of | a great number of |
| - | lots of | - |
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Note: much and many are used in negative and question forms.
Examples
- How much money have you got?
- How many cigarettes have you smoked?
- There's not much sugar in the cupboard.
- There weren't many people at the concert.
They are also used
with too, (not) so, and (not) as :There
were too many people at the
concert - we couldn't see the band.
It's a problem when there are so many
people.
There's not so much work
to do this week.
In positive statements, we use a lot of:
Examples
- I've got a lot of work this week.
- There were a lot of people at the concert.
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