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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.1 - TV Globetrotters for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Check what you know. Which of the quantifiers in bold in the article refer to: all; a lot; a moderate or small number / amount; an additional one; zero?
  2. Complete the rules with the type of noun: singular, plural or uncountable. Use the article to help.
  3. In sentences 1-4 below, do the quantifiers few and little mean some or not many / not much?

Answer

a)

  • all → every, each (every means all the people / things considered together; each means all the people/things considered separately, one at a time)
  • a lot → quite a few, a large number of, many, a good deal of, plenty of a moderate or small number / amount: several, few, little an additional one: another
  • zero → no

b)

  1. plural
  2. uncountable
  3. singular
  4. plural; uncountable
  5. singular

c)

  1. not many
  2. some
  3. not much
  4. some