Notice which ones can be used with countable, uncountable or both: The table below shows quantifiers that can indicate quantity from 0% to 100%. And we use some with countable or uncountable nouns. We use some other quantifiers only with uncountable nouns. We use some quantifiers only with countable nouns. They answer the question 'How many?' or 'How much?' on a scale from none (0%) to all (100%). Quantifiers are determiners that describe quantity in a noun phrase. There were a lot of people at the concert.Grammar : Determiners : Quantifiers Quantifiers.There's not so much work to do this week. It's a problem when there are so many people. They are also used with too, (not) so, and (not) as There were n't many people at the party.Note: much and many are used in negative and question forms. The words in the middle column can be used with both 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). Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns

Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.

She had less time to study than I did but had better results.

Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before 2010.

The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.

Fewer people die young now than in the nineteenth century.

Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defense.

There are many people in Poland, more in India, but the most people live in China.

They are like comparatives and hold a relative position on a scale of increase or decrease.

He had little money (= almost no money).

Few people visited him in hospital (= he had almost no visitors).

'I've got a little money' (= I've got enough to live on)įew and little describe the quantity in a negative way:.

'I've got a few friends' (= maybe not many, but enough).

These expressions show the speaker's attitude towards the quantity he/she is referring to.Ī few (for countable nouns) and a little (for uncountable nouns) describe the quantity in a positive way: Something, Anything, Someone, Anyone etc.

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