Quantifiers

Quantifiers

    form a sub-class under determiners. They are adjectives or phrases that serve to answer two possible questions:

1. How many

2. and How much?

For example: a few, a little, much, many, most, some, any, enough, etc., are quantifiers.

Quantifiers that describe quantity

Words and phrases that describe quantity include a little, none, a few, etc. Some of these are used only with:

Countable nouns - These are the nouns that answer the question How many? For example: a few, a number of, several, etc.

Uncountable nouns - These are the nouns that answer the question How much? For example: a little, a bit of, etc. )

Some of them are also used with both. These are the ones that answer both questions. For example: such as no/none, some, a lot of, etc.

Quantifiers that express attitude

The words few, little and the phrases - a few and a little serve to describe the speaker’s attitude to the quantity being described. The first two carry negative suggestions, whereas the last two carry positive suggestions. For example:

The phrase I have little time means that the speaker hardly has time, whereas the phrase I have a little time means that while the speaker may not have all the time in the world, but s/he has enough for the purpose at hand.

‘Enough’ Enough is used to indicate the necessary amount or quantity; it is placed before nouns. For example: There is enough time, You have enough money, Is there enough food?, etc.

EXERCISE: ESSAY

1.     He has …. Money

2.    ….. the students wore white shirts                      

3.    ……people come here

4.    Two shops were open but ………. The shops sold sugar.                                                                                                                         

5.    …..  shopping malls were crowded last night.

Answer :

1.     A lot of

2.    None of

3.    Few

4.    Neither of

5.    Both

EXERCISE : PILIHAN BERGANDA

1.     They enjoyed the two week tower

The underline word has the same many us

a.    Got bored with

b.    Got pleasure from

c.    Became addicted to

d.    Planed well became amazed at

2.    I was exercising when my neighbour …………….two suspicious women outside my house

a.see

b.saw

c.seen

d.sees

     3.i’ll ………….to a ticket box to check it

a.go

b.goes

c.gone

d.went

     4. two days ago,sari ………..an accident

         a. get

         b.gets

         c.is geting

         d.got

    5. last week ,rona ………..an sick

         a. get

         b.gets

        c.is geting

         d.got

     ANSWER:

          1. D

          2. C

          3.A

          4.D

          5.D