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The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 10 - Big night out for the textbook Outcomes Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

With your partner, explain the difference in use between the following.

Answer

  1. We use a few with countable, plural nouns, and a little with uncountable nouns that have a singular form (i.e. they have no s).
  2. A few suggests ‘some’ (more or positive), whereas few with no ‘a’ means almost none (less or negative).
  3. We use much with uncountable nouns and many with countable, plural nouns.
  4. We use no before a noun. We use not before a verb or with another quantifier (not much, not many, not any).