Tuesday 5 February 2013

QUANTIFIERS

Look at these tables to see the different quantifiers we use in English:

Uncountable nouns
Countable nous
Other
HOW MUCH water do you drink? HOW MANY people were there?

A LITTLE (and that's OK, I don't need more) 
A FEW (and that was enough)

I drink LITTLE water (not enough, I think I should drink more) There were FEW people (not enough, e.g. the party was boring)

I drink ENOUGH water (sufficient) There were ENOUGH people (sufficient, just the right number) I'm tall ENOUGH to play basketball
I don't drink MUCH water (negative sentence) There weren't MANY people (negative sentence)

I drink A LOT OF water There were A LOT OF people He eats A LOT.
I drink TOO MUCH water (more than necessary) There were TOO MANY people (more than necessary) I'm TOO tired I'm going to bed.

To practise a little more, please visit tolearnenglish (lots of links here), grammar.ccc or esl-lounge. For longer sentences go to grammarbank.

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