DETERMINERS, QUANTIFIERS AND ADVERBS OF QUANTITY-B1 AND B2
Resumimos muy rápidamente este tipo de palabras, aun a riesgo de repasar las reglas y ejemplos muy por encima:
MUCH, MANY, A LOT OF, LOTS OF
As you know,
much is used with uncountable nouns, and many is used with countable nouns.
A lot of and lots of are preferred in affirmative sentences, but
much and many are more formal.
In negative sentences, we use
much and many.
I don’t have much money.
You can get to meet lots of people at that camping.
There are many reasons to continue studying.
Much and many can be followed by of+a possessive or the article “the”.
I spent much of my money on records.
He is one of the many youth who have moved abroad.
This organization is proud of its many contributors
LITTLE/FEW: I have
little time There are (too)
few cars in Madrid
ENOUGH: Lo suficiente-She has
enough money BUT I am (not)
strong enough
TOO, TOO MUCH, TOO MANY: The bag is too heavy/ I am too weak
You gave me too much information
There are too many cars in Madrid
SOME: Usado con contables e incontables:
Some people think... I have some fruit. Oraciones positivas y preguntas con ofrecimiento en el que se espera respuesta positiva
: Do you want some water? De esta palabra se derivan s
omewhere, somehow, somebody, someone.
NEITHER OF: We use it to refer to two people or things:
Neither of us went to the party.
NONE OF: We use it to talk about more than two people or things:
None of us went to the party.
None of the teachers is over 50.
Sometimes we don’t include the noun, if it’s clear because of the context:
Have you won any awards?
No, I’ve won
none so far (no awards).
.
Uncountable nouns
NONE: Do you have salt? There's none left ("nada de sal")
NOBODY/NO ONE: Nadie: There was no one//nobody in the room.
ANYBODY: There wasn't anybody in the room.
NOTHING-nade
NOWHERE-en ninguna parte
ALL, BOTH, WHOLE
We use all or all of when we are talking about the total number of things or people in a group, or the total amount of something.
Example:
-
All (of) my cousins were at my sister’s wedding.
- The baby seems to cry all the time.
-Not
all the vacancies were covered.
-Have you all heard the news already?
In modern English we use “
everyone” and not constructions like “all the people”:
Everyone was listening to the lecturer (and not all the people were listening to the lecturer).
Before singular countable nouns we usually use the whole(of) rather than all (of) the.
The man didn’t stop coughing during
the whole of the play
We use
both (of) when we want to talk about two things together. Both (of) and all (of) are used in the same places in sentences.
-
Both (of) the rooms are free.
-Both (of) the cars have been sold.
-They have
both eaten their dinner.
-Are you both coming to the party?
EXERCISE
Fill in the gaps using all, few, a few, less, many, much, lot, none and whole
1-___________ were shocked by the verdict. They didn’t expect it.
2- Give me some water, there’s __________________ left.
3- _________________ of us are trying to find accommodation.
4- A _________________ of them disagree with the measure.
5- The ___________________ region is devastated.
6- He’s lying on the sofa __________ the time.
7- After you do it ______________ times it is not so terrible.
8- There are too_________________ chairs. We need more.
Answers-1- Many 2-none 3-all 4-few 5-whole 6-all 7-a few 8-few
