Quatifiers

Quantifiers

B1

Large quantities

• Used in + sentences
• With countable and uncountable nouns
• More formal

• Used in + sentences
• = more than enough

Plenty of

A lot of /lots of

Loads of

• Normally used in - and ?
• Much with uncountable nouns
• Many with countable nouns

• Used in + sentences
• With countable and uncountable nouns

Much/ many

small quantities

• Used with plural countable nouns
• Few = almost none; not enough
• A few = some, but not

many, enough. (+ meaning)

• The compartives of

little and few

Less/ fewer

Few/ a few

Little/ a little

• = not much/many

• Used with uncountable

nouns

• Litlle = almost none; not enough
• A little = some, but not

much, enough. (+ meaning)

Very little/ few

More or less than you need or want

• Too much + uncountable nouns
• Too many + countable nouns
• in + sentences

Too much/many

Too

• + nouns
• to say that something is less than we want or we need.

• + adjective or adverb
• negative meaning
• more than neccessary

or needed

Not enough

Zeroquantity

• + uncountable or plural nouns
• with + verbs

• + noun/pronoun

None of

No

Any

• + uncountable or plural nouns
• with - verbs
• in ?

• without a noun
• in short answers

None