QUANTIFIERS
Words showing quantity or number, but not in an
exact way are quantifiers.
I have too many friends.
They have little water.
We have a few books.
Jack went to a lot of places.
I saw a few birds.
They have too much time.
1. FORMATION OF QUANTIFIERS
They are of three categories:
1. Single-word quantifier
(Many/ Much/ Few/ Little / Less/ Several/
Some/ Any/ Enough/ Every/ Either/ Each/
Neither/ Most/ All/ Nor/ No/ None/ Both)
2. Double-word quantifier
(Too many/ Too much/ A few/ A little/ A bit/
Some of/ Any of/ Enough of/ Not many/ Not
much/ A lot/ Plenty of/ Lots of/ Not enough/
Most of / All of/ None of/ Both of)
3. Multi-word quantifier
(A lot of/ An awful lot of/ A whole lot of/ A
great number of/ A small number of/ A great
amount of/ A great chunk of)
2. AGREEMENT WITH NOUNS
1. With Countable Nouns:
(Many/ Too many/ Not many/ A large number of/
A small number of/ A few/ Few/ Every/ Several)
Examples:
I bought many books.
They have too many problems.
They sold not many books.
I saw a large number of people.
I text a small number of teachers.
A few students can get into book 5.
Every student can get into book 5.
2. With Uncountable Nouns:
(Much/ Too much/ Not much/ A large amount of/ A
small amount of/ A little/ Little/ A bit)
Examples:
I had much time to talk about problems.
They had too much water to drink.
We faced not much knowledge while working
with the computer.
A large amount of sugar was there on the floor.
A small amount of rice was in the kitchen.
3. With Countable and Uncountable Nouns:
(A lot of/ Plenty of/ All/ All of/ Most/ Most of/ A
large deal of/ An awful lot of/ lots of/ Some/ Any/
Enough/ No/ None/ None of/ Not enough)
Examples:
I have a lot of friends.
I have a lot of water.
I saw plenty of people.
I sold plenty of sugar.
No water was there.
No classes are there.
MORE ABOUT QUANTIFIERS
1. Too / Too much / Too many
Too many + Countable Nouns
Too much + Uncountable Nouns
Too + Adjectives / Adverbs
Ex:
I have too many books.
They sold too many chapters.
Jack has too much water.
Monica bought too much sugar.
Rob is too busy.
Jack is too good.
2. Enough
After Adjectives
After Adverbs
After Verbs
Before Nouns
Ex:
Ryan is tall enough.
Ryan walks slowly enough.
I work enough.
I have enough books.
3. Zero Quantity
No + Countable / Uncountable (In positive
sentences)
Any (In negative sentences)
None (Short answer)
oI have no books.
oThey have no respect.
oI do not have any problems.
oI do not know any boss.
oA: Do you like the red book or the blue?
B: None.
B: None of them.
B: I like none.
B: None is liked.
