viernes, 16 de marzo de 2012

QUANTIFIER

Quantifier can be a single word or a phrase and are used with nouns. They can be used with both a countable or an uncountable noun to express amount or quantity.

Common quantitiers: some, much, many, few, little, a lot, half, three.

Plural countable: many, more, most, few, fewer, fewest.

Example:
There are many people in poland, more in India, but most people live in China.
Few revers in El Salvador aren't polluted.

Uncountable nouns: much, more, most, little, less, least.

Example:
Much time and money is spent on education, more on health service but the most is spent on national defense.
She had less time to study than I did but had better results.

Both plural countable + uncountable: how much? or how many?, no/none, not any, some(any), a lot of, plenty of, lots of.

Example:
How much money have you got?
How many cigarettes have you smoked?


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