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Exercises Quantifiers - Key

The document provides a series of exercises involving the use of quantifiers such as "some", "any", "a lot of", "few", "little", "many" and "-". For each exercise, solutions are provided indicating which quantifier is correct or most appropriate for each blank. The exercises focus on distinguishing between and selecting the proper quantifiers to complete sentences. Key quantifiers are defined or examples of their use are provided.

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Exercises Quantifiers - Key

The document provides a series of exercises involving the use of quantifiers such as "some", "any", "a lot of", "few", "little", "many" and "-". For each exercise, solutions are provided indicating which quantifier is correct or most appropriate for each blank. The exercises focus on distinguishing between and selecting the proper quantifiers to complete sentences. Key quantifiers are defined or examples of their use are provided.

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Exercises #1.

Put in some, any or -.

1. We can’t do without ... bread. 2. There isn’t ... life in that girl. 3. Buy ... bread and cheese for the picnic, if you want
to help. 4. I like ... biscuits and ... sweets. 5. ... doctor will tell you that it is harmful. 6. There’s hardly ... milk in the
bottle. 7. If you have ... news call me back. 8. Go and ask him for ... paper. I haven’t ... in my desk. 9. Can we have ...
milk? 10. What material do you need? – ... that is available. 11. Put ... spices into the soup. 12. I hate ... bad news. 13.
There aren’t ... buses after ten o’clock. 14. I haven’t got ... friends at all. 15. I can answer only ... questions on the
subject. 16. Don’t let us have ... nonsense about it. 17. “Let’s go back home, it’s late.” – “I’d rather stay out a little
longer.” – “I suppose we’ve got to go home ... time.” 18. I don’t think there is ... milk left in the jug.

Soluciones: any – any – some - /-/ /-/ - any – any – some – some – any – some – some- any – any – any – some - /-/ -
some - any

#2. Choose the right variant.

1. Give me ... milk, please. 4. You can find ... time between 1 any 2 2 no 3 one 4 some 1
six and nine.
1 any 2 some 3 no 4 – 7. Ann is much younger than ...
1 some 2 any 3 no 4 – other girls in her class.
2. We have ... rivers but have...
lakes. 5. When I needed help, he didn’t 1 some 2 any 3 no 4 –
ask ... questions.
1 some 1 2 any 3 no 2 4 – 8. Shall I help you to ... fruit?
1 no 2 some 3- 4 any
3. There is ... taxi when you need 1 any 2 – 3 some 4 no
.... 6. You may have ... tea without
milk because there isn’t ... at
1 any 2 2 – 3 one 4 no 1
home.

#1. Supply much/many or a lot of .

1. I know old Mr. Higgins has ... money. 2. There aren’t ... portraits of Shakespeare. 3. Don’t be discouraged! ... have
failed to run the marathon. 4. Take as ... of these tiles as you want. 5. ... was said about it. 6. How ... frames are you
going to buy? 7. If you have ... news call me back. 8. He is a man of ... words. 9. Last week there was so ... rain that I
was not able to go out. 10. Tom drinks ... milk – one liter a day. 11. Every day we get ... magazines and news-papers.
12. We didn’t take ... photographs when we were on holiday. 13. Did you invite ... guests? 14. He knew he was not a
good teacher, and he intended to do ... of that.

SOLUCIONES: a lot of – many – Many – many – A lot / Much – many – a lot of – many – much – a lot of – many –
many – many - much

#2. Supply few/a few, little or a little.

1. Hurry! We’ve got ... time. 2. I saw Tom ... days ago. 3. If what you say is true, there is ... we can do about it. 4. I
can’t let you use much of this perfume. There’s only ... in the bottle. 5. This town isn’t very well-known and there
isn’t much to see, so … tourists come here. 6. I don’t think Jill would be a good teacher. She’s got ... patience with
children. 7. “Would you like some more cake?’ – “Yes, please, but only .... 8. There are very … scholarships for
students in this university. 9. We didn’t have any money but Ann had .... 10. This is not the first time the car has
broken down. It has happened ... times before. 11. There is a shortage of water because there has been very ... rain
recently.

SOLUCIONES: little – a few – little – a little – few – little – a little – few – a little – a few - little

#3. Choose between a little, a lot of, a few, few, fewer, many and much.

DON’T CALL US, WE’LL CALL YOU! Two years ago I moved to a new neighborhood. There seem to be very … people in
this area who are without telephones, so I expected to get a new phone quickly. I applied for one as soon as I moved
into my new house. ‘We aren’t supplying ... new phones in your area’, an engineer told me. ‘ ... people want new
phones at the moment and the company is employing … engineers than last year so as to save money. A new phone
won’t cost you ... money, but it will take ... time. We can’t do anything for you before December. ‘You need …
patience if you’re waiting for a new phone and you need … friends whose phones you can use as well. Fortunately, I
had both. December came and went, but there was no sign of a phone. I went to the company’s local office to
protest. ‘They told me I’d have a phone by December,’ I protested. ‘Which year?’ the assistant asked.

SOLUCIONES: few – many – a lot of – fewer – much – a lot of - a lot of – a few

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