THIRD LEARNING OUTCOME MATERIAL

“Determinando mi entorno empresarial”

Quantifiers

Quantifiers in English language are those words that allow you to name, count and
organize things or people. Its function is to replace the numbers when the exact
quantity is unknown. For example: some, any, much, many, and none.

Many

It is used to build affirmative, interrogative and

negative sentences. It is also used to talk
about countable words.

The word company (one company, two

companies, many companies)
The word plane (one plane, two planes, many
planes)

.
Affirmative sentences:

He has many I have many t-

fruits. shirts.
 Negative sentences:

There are not many She doesn’t have

students in this class. many dresses..

Interrogative Sentences:

How many Colombian pesos are in one American dollar?

How many liters of water do you need?

 Some or Any

They are used when the quantity is known but it

is not necessary to provide the precise number
of it. They are used to talk about both countable
and uncountable nouns, in affirmative
sentences (some), interrogative and negative
sentences (any).

Affirmative sentences:

There is some bread in There are some

the larder. problems with the
Internet connection.

Negative Sentences:
 I do not have any I do not have any
peach-palmes. vacancy right now.

Interrogative Sentences:

Do you have any Do you have any

fruits? pending issue?
 Few or Little

It is used to talk about small quantities of names

or objects. It can be used with both, countable
and uncountable nouns.

Countable: Few

Uncountable: Little

Example:

There are few fruits to export. That company has few

(Hay pocas frutas para entrepreneurs. (Esa empresa
exportar) tiene pocos emprendedores)
 There are few companies like
“Paradise Fruits” (Hay pocas
empresas como “Paradise Fruits”.)

We need a little of We have little time to get

patience. (Necesitamos there. (Tenemos poco
un poco de paciencia.) tiempo para llegar allá.)
 How many

It is used to talk about countable nouns.

For example:

How many fruits How many fingers

are yellow? do you have?

How many products are

we going to export this
month?
 How much

It is used to talk about uncountable nouns.

For example:

How much money do How much water do you

you need to invest in drink every day?
the project?
 How much time does it How much water do you
take you to go to the drink every day?
school?

References

 Moreno, F. (2008). "An Interactive Reading Comprehension Course".

Proyecto web. Consultado el 26 de octubre de 2013, en:
http://www.colombiaaprende.edu.co/recursos/software/reading/UNIT12/garde
n.htm

 Rodriguez, S.(2001) Quantifiers. Consultado el 26 de octubre en:

http://www.reypastor.org/departamentos/ding/suro/grammar/quantifiers/quanti
fiers.htm
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