Quantifiers
Like articles, quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They tell us how many or how much. For our purposes, we will choose the count noun trees and the non-count noun dancing:
The following quantifiers will work with count nouns:
many trees
a few trees
few trees
several trees
a couple of trees
none of the treesThe following quantifiers will work with non-count nouns:
not much dancing
a little dancing
little dancing
a bit of dancing
a good deal of dancing
a great deal of dancing
no dancingThe following quantifiers will work with both count and non-count nouns:
all of the trees/dancing
some trees/dancing
most of the trees/dancing
enough trees/dancing
a lot of trees/dancing
lots of trees/dancing
plenty of trees/dancing
a lack of trees/dancing
**Ok, class. I made 3 sentences below. Are they correct?
1. There was a war a few decades ago.
2. A bit of the trees are in the forest.
3. I bought a house a few years ago.
**Can you make your own sentence using a quantifier?
1. Correct, 2. Incorrect, 3. Correct
My own sentences are as below,
1. I would like to earn much money to go to travel with my family.
2. Many participants have the experience of working onboard as a marine engineer.
3. Only a few participants come to Korea to attend the training courses when there is no training schedule in Denmark.
4. In the morning, lots of people go to company with bus so that it is very difficult to take a seat in the bus.
Jun Uk,
First, you are correct. You CAN use "the war." But, my original sentence does not tell us that a war is specific. A few decades ago might be 30 years ago or 40 years ago OR it might be in another country. So, it's not exactly specific.
If you want to use "the war," I would say...
The war was a few decades ago.
Second, you are right again about "the house." But both sentences are correct. I can explain in class.
Your sentences...
1. Great!
2. Good!
3. Not sure what you meant here...
Good work though!
1. Correct ( but, the meaning of sestence is that "the war" hapened specific time. so is it right to write " the war" instead of "a war" ?)
2. Incorrect ( A few/Few trees are in the forest)
3. Correct ( but, the meaning of sestence is that you bought the house which was only one in the world, so is right to wtite "the house" instead of "a house"
My sentences are ...
Several nouns can be used in both quanitfers.
Few drugs approved by FDA have no sideeffect.
Lacks of the evidence in neuroscience are to stimulate scientists willing to elucidate some hypotheses.