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• AnKa
• Katharina
• Kim
• Lara
• Dennis1980

Short description of the topic

Quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns; they indicate quantity.

There are different types of quantifiers which can be divided in quantifiers for count nouns and non-count nouns.

Comment

Count-nouns are regarded as individual, countable items: e.g. tree

Non-count nouns are not countable, things that we regard as 'undifferentiated mass': e.g. dancing, the water we spilled on the floor, one big mess

Nouns that can be either count or non-count nouns: e.g. paper, stone, and cake For instance, I can enter a bakery and say 'I want a cake' (an individual bakery product), or, before we enter, I can tell a friend that 'I want cake' and not refer to a specific cake but simply mean that the idea of eating cake appeals to me — any cake or piece of cake with chocolate frosting...

Examples

Quantifier expressions

• some
• both
• all
• everything
• nothing
• at least five
• most
• all but one
• less than half of the
• three books
• more...than
• John and Mary
• only John

Quantifiers that work with count nouns:

many / a few / several / a couple of / none of the trees

Quantifiers that work with non-count nouns:

not much / a little / a bit of / no dancing

Quantifiers that work with both count and non-count nouns:

all of the / some/ most of the / enough / a lot of trees / lots of / plenty of / a lack of trees/dancing

References and links

References

• Definition of quantifier from the Oxford Online Dictionary
• Definition of quantifier from the Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/noun_exercise.htm
• http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm

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