Ingles

Quantifiers
some
Se utiliza con nombres contables en plural:
I've borrowed some books from the library.
Se utiliza también con sustantivos incontables:
There is some milk in the fridge.
Se utiliza en preguntas cuando esperamos una respuesta positiva. Por ejemplo, cuando se ofrece comida o bebida:
Would you like some ice-cream? Yes, please!
any
Se utiliza en oracionesnegativas e interrogativas tanto con sustantivos contables como incontables:
There aren't any glasses here.
Are there any glasses here?
There isn't any water on the table.
Is there any water on the table?
much and a lot of
Much se utiliza con sustantivos incontables:
How much pocket money do you get every week?
Hurry up. There isn't much time left.
En inglés hablado muchse utiliza solo en oraciones interrogativas y negativas. Para hablar afirmativamente se usa a lot of:
Andalucía exports a lot of olive oil.
Please, put a lot of cream on my apple pie.

Choose the correct quantifier.
1. They have had lots of homework in mathematics recently.
2. How muchtime do you need to finish the work?
3. There are too many students in thelibrary.
4. Have you visited any  foreign country?
5. Although he's very ill, he didn't take any  medicine.
6. Few  people know as much about linguistics as John does.
7. They say Little  knowledge is a dangerous thing.
8. He's having  a lot  of trouble passing his driving test.
9. I spend most  of my time reading novels.
10. He knows a Little  English. Heknows enough English to manage.
|THE QUANTIFIERS |
|A few and few, a little and little|
|These expressions show the speaker's attitude towards the quantity he/she is referring to. |
|A few (for countable nouns) and a little (for uncountablenouns) describe the quantity in a positive way: |
|·         "I've got a few friends" (= maybe not many, but enough)|
|·         "I've got a little money" (= I've got enough to live on) |
|Few and little describe the quantity in a negative way:|
|·         Few people visited him in hospital (= he had almost no visitors) |
|·         He had little money (= almost no money)|
|THE QUANTIFIERS |
|Graded Quantifiers...