Guide # 4.12 Practicing Quantifiers.
Please, answer these questions in long answer not in short. They must be complete.
- Hello, What´s Your name?
- _____________________________
- How do you do?
- _____________________________
- What is your cicle?
- _____________________________
- What are you doing now?
- _____________________________
- Where do you live?
- _____________________________
- Do you live with your family?
- _____________________________
Questions Tags:
There Was and There Were
A tag question is a grammatical structure in which a declarative or an imperative statement is turned into interrogative fragment
- There was a good film on Netflix last night, wasn’t there?
- There wasn’t any time to go to the beach, was there?
- There wasn’t any food, was there?
- There were a lot of people here today, weren’t there?
- There weren’t any options for me, were there?
- There were many people at the concert, weren’t there?
Remember that
- if the sentence is affirmative, the question tag will then be negative and
- if the sentence is negative, the question tag will be affirmative.
There was and There Were Exercises
These are some exercises to practice the use of there was and there were
- Oxford University Press – There was and There were
- Using English – There was and There were
- SuperProf – There be
- Exercises there was-were.
Quantifiers
Are words or phrases that are used before a noun to show the amount of it that is being considered.
It is often followed by ‘of’, as in ‘a lot of money’.
- Most children start school at the age of five.
- We ate some bread and butter.
- We saw lots of birds.
- I’ll be back in a couple of minutes.
- There were hundreds of people at the meeting.
- They haven’t made many friends here.
- We’ve got lots of things to do.
- That’s a lot of money.
- There weren’t a lot of choices.
These are some quantifiers that we can use with countable nouns.
| Many | A few |
| Few | Several |
| A couple | None of |
| Thousands of | Both |
| Neither | Each |
- We have several problems to solve
- She bought a couple of bikes for her nieces.
- None of my friends came to the party
- There are many people who want to help you out
- We have many cats and dogs at home
- Thousands of people left their homes after volcano eruption
- Both trees from your yard were cut down
- Both of them came to my office and asked for a raise.
- Neither one of them made a contribution to the project.
- Neither one of them brought what they promised
Quantifiers with Non-Countable Nouns
These are some quantifiers that we can use with non- countable nouns.
| Not much | A little |
| Little | A bit of |
| A good deal | A great deal |
Examples
- I have a great deal of confidence in this team.
- A good deal of attention needs to be devoted to little children.
- I need a little bit of help with the programming assignment
- There is not much action in this movie
- With very little I keep the organization alive.
Quantifiers with Countable and Non-Countable Nouns
These are some quantifiers that we can use with countable and non-countable nouns.
- all
- enough
- more/most
- less/least
- no/none
- not any
- some
- any
- a lot of
- lots of
- plenty of
- all of the trees/All of the trees were cut down
- some trees/ water--Some information has been leaked to the public
- most of the trees/ Most of the oceans are polluted
- enough trees/ information /I don’t have enough money to get untilthe end of the month.
- a lot of trees/ information /There is a lack of water in distant communities
- lots of trees/ water /We have lots of time /Joe has lots of friends/ There was a lot of food but no drinks.
- plenty of trees/ information /
- a lack of trees/ water /
- I can’t go out. I’ve got no money.
These are some exercises to see how much you know about quantifiers
https://englishpost.org/teaching-grammar-quantifiers/