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Usage of (Un)Quantifiers

A few and few, a little and little

Some or Any

Something, Anything, Someone, Anyone etc.

Enough



A few and few, a little and little

These expressions show the speaker's attitude towards the quantity he/she is referring to.

A few (for countable nouns) and a little (for uncountable nouns) describe the quantity in a positive way:

* "I've got a few friends" (= maybe not many, but enough)
* "I've got a little money" (= I've got enough to live on)



Few and little describe the quantity in a negative way:

* Few people visited him in hospital (= he had almost no visitors)
* He had little money (= almost no money)


With plural countable nouns:

many more most


With uncountable nouns:

much more most


With plural countable nouns:

few fewer fewest


With uncountable nouns:

little less least


Examples:

· There are many people in Poland, more in India, but the most people live in China.
· Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defense.
· Few rivers in Europe aren�t polluted.
· Fewer people die young now than in the nineteenth century.
· The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.
· Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before 2010.
· She had less time to study than I did but had better results.
· Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.

Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns

Some adjectives and adjectival phrases can only go with uncountable nouns (salt, rice, money, advice), and some can only go with countable nouns (friends, bags, people). The words in the middle column can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.

With Uncountable Nouns

How much?
a little
a bit (of)
a great deal of
a large amount of
a large quantity of

With Both

How much? or How many?
no/none
not any
a number (of)
some (any)
a lot of
plenty of
lots of

With Countable Nouns

How many?
a few
several
a large number
a great number of
a majority of

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 party.

They are also used with too, (not) so, and (not) as

There were too many people at the party.
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:

· I've got a lot of work this week.
· There were a lot of people at the concert.