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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 uncountable nouns) 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 ina negative way:
* Few people visited him in hospital (= he had almost no visitors)
* He had little money (= almost no money)
Graded Quantifiers
They are like comparatives and hold a relative position on a scale of increase or decrease.
INCREASE (0% to 100%)
With plural countable nouns: |
many | more | most |
With uncountable nouns: |
much | more | most |
DECREASE (100% to 0%)|
With plural countable nouns: |
few | fewer | fewest |
With uncountable nouns: |
little | less | least |

With Uncountable Nouns | With Both | With Countable Nouns |
How much? | How much? or How many? | How many? |
a little | no/none | a few |
a bit (of) | not any | a number (of) |
  | some (any) | several |
a great deal of | a lot of | a large number of |
a large amountof | plenty of | a great number of |
a large quantity of | lots of | a majority of |

· There are many people in Poland, more in India, but the most people live in China.
· Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defense.
· Few rivers in Europe aren’t polluted.
· Fewer people die young now than in the nineteenth century.
· Thecountry with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.
· Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before 2010.
· She had less time to study than I did but had better results.
· Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.
Quantifiers with countable and uncountable nouns
Some adjectives and adjectival phrases can only go with uncountable nouns(salt, rice, money, advice), and some can only go with countable nouns (friends, bags, people). The words in the middle column can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns.
Note: much and many are used in negative and question forms.
Example:
How much money have you got?
How many cigarettes have you smoked?
· There’s not much sugar in the cupboard.
· There weren’t many people atthe party.
They are also used with too, (not) so, and (not) as
There were too many people at the party.
It’s a problem when there are so many people.
There’s not so much work to do this week.
In positive statements, we use a lot of:
· I’ve got a lot of work this week.
· There were a lot of people at the 
Quantifiers / Expresiones de cantidad
Form
All, no,each, every, some, any, much, many, several, more, most, little, less, a lot of, few, fewer, enough, one, two, first, second, last, either, neither.
Use
Los cuantificadores, o determinantes de cantidad, nos dicen de cuántas cosas o personas hablamos o a qué cantidad se refiere del sustantivo que acompañan: 
There are some cartons of milk in fridge.
Only few swimmers have been able to cross The Channel.
all
* Se utiliza consustantivos incontables:
All electrical equipment should be checked carefully.
* Se utiliza con sustantivos contables, en plural:
All shops close at lunch time in this town.
no
* Se utiliza en oraciones negativas después de un verbo en forma positiva:
I've got no money left.
There will be no test this week because your teacher is ill.
each and every
* Se usan solamente consustantivos contables en singular:
Fill in each blank in the exercise.
We have to telephone every person in this list to organise the party.
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....