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Quantifiers

what are Q uantifie rs? Q uantifie rs are a type of determiner s ( a little , a lot of , or many ) that expresses the quantity of something. Quantifiers usually take place in front of nouns (as in many cars ), but they may also work as pronouns as follow (as All have returned ). Qu antifie rs can be a group of words (such as a lot of ). Quantifiers are answering the following questions: how many? ( for countable nouns) how much? ( for uncountable nouns) Quantifies that are used with uncountable nouns: much a little /little/very little a bit (of) a great deal of a large amount of a large quantity of Examples: I like coffee with little sugar. We export a large quantity of green tea to Canada. They fish a large amount of fish today. Quantifies that are used with both countable uncountable nouns: all enough more/most less/least no/none not any some any a lot of lots of plenty of Examples: All my family's laptops are made in China. She got enough money from the p

Singular and plural nouns

Nouns A noun is a person, an animal, a place, or a thing. Examples: a dog, a town, a phone, a cat, an orange, an egg, and a beach. In writing, names of people, places, days, months, etc. begin with a capital letter. Examples: Friday, Mr. Joe, Paris, and June. Singular and plural nouns Most nouns can be singular or plural. Examples : a cat - two cars - an apple- five apples- melon - three melons- an egg- some eggs For the plural form of most nouns, add -s . Examples : bottle- bottles, pen- pens, Window- windows, coin - coins. For nouns that end in s, ss, ch, and x sounds (and potato, tomato), we add -es at the end of the word . Examples : box - boxes, moss mosses, bus - buses, potato-potatoes. For nouns that end with fe , change f to v and add -es . Examples : wolf- wolves, wife - wives, leaf leaves, life-lives For nouns that end in consonant (b. c d etc+y(ay ey oy) , change y to į and add -es and -s. Examples : day - days, baby - babies, toy toys, family families.

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