Exercises: English Quantifiers

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Von Autor/in Heidrun Legner-Hackney, Sarah Klein-Adolph

Exercise A

Fill in “much“ or “many“ in front of the noun.

Exercise B

Complete the sentence. Use “very little“ or “very few“ plus one of these words:

alcohol – pubs – mistakes – people – sunshine – time – work

Example: Your French is very good. You make very few mistakes.

Exercise C

Complete the sentence. Use “little“, “a little“, “few“ or “a few“

Exercise D

Do you use “each“ or “every“ in the following sentences?

Exercise E

Alex and Betty write a shopping list. Complete their conversation with “some“, “any“ or “no“. the first sentence has been done for you.

Example: Alex: We don’t have any butter, so we need to buy some.

Exercise F

Choose the best option from each pair to complete the sentences.

1 When we were students my flatmate and I spent ______ time together. (many/a lot of)
2 As we had ______ money, we often stayed at home. (little/a little)
3 We cooked together and invited friends to have ______ wine or beer with the meals. (some/any)
4 There were occasions when it got loud and ______ neighbours complained. (several/a great deal of)
5 But normally the parties ended quite early when there weren’t ______ drinks left. (some/any)

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Autor/in
Heidrun Legner-Hackney
Sarah Klein-Adolph