StSt ch.4 Quantifiers and Comparisons

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 4

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• Quantifiers
  
• Degrees of comparison
  

Fill in the correct quantifier:
How ... roads must a man walk down, before you can call him a man?

1. much
2. many
3. little
4. a lot of

Bob Dylan Blowin in the Wind

Many - countable, question and neg

Much - uncountable 

A lot of in bevestigende zinnen.

Fill in the correct quantifier:
Don't know ... about history
(bonus points for the title of the song and the artist)

Sam Cooke - Wonderful world

Fill in the correct quantifier:
I wonder why there are so ... lovely people like you
My, but I will surely miss you when you go.

1. much
2. lot of
3. little
4. few

Song by Johnny Cash

few = correct.

People 1 person, two people countable 

Fill in the correct quantifier:
Start a ... movement in your sacrolliac
Wiggle like a stick wobble like a duck
That's what you do when you do the Hucklebuck

Song by Chubby Checker

MUCH

MANY

seas

pain

times

stuff

magic

fools

Gebruik "Many/Much" bij

ontkennende en vragende zinnen.

O: I haven't got much time.

V: How much money do you need?

O: I don't have many friends.

v: How many copies do you need?

Gebruik  "A lot of" of "lots of" bij

bevestigende zinnen

B:  Dagobert Duck has a lot of money.

B: Students generally spend lots of time on their homework.

B:  John has got lots of work to do.

B: I have got lots of Facebook friends.

A few/A little

Dutch: 'een paar' & 'een beetje'. Nadruk op het kleine beetje dat er wel is (het glas is half vol)

Vorm: a little/a few + Zelfstandig nw.

Een beetje wijn                                   A little wine

Een paar leerlingen                           A few pupils

Few/Little

Dutch variant is 'weinig'. Nadruk op het feit dat er weinig is (het glas is half leeg).

Vorm: little/few + Zelfstandig nw.

Weinig wijn                                          Little wine

Weinig leerlingen                              Few pupils

Comparisons

It's a cold day today.

It is definitely colder than it was yesterday.

The Met office said it is quite possibly the coldest day of the year.

1 lettergreep

- Vergrotende trap: woord +  -er

- Overtreffende trap: woord + -est

old

older

oldest

Comparisons - regular conjugation

one syllable

• cold - colder - coldest
• - E: large -  larger - largest
• Doubling of consonants: fat - fatter -fattest

Comparisons - regular conjugation

Two or more syllables

• 2 syllables: verbs ending in  –le, –er, –ow en –y get - er, -est

• 2 syllables: others: more and most 
• Three more syllables:  more and most

        She is more beautiful in winter than in summer

        She is the most beautiful girl in the world.

Onregelmatige vormen

good - better - best

bad - worse - worst

few - fewer - fewest

little -  less - least

many - more - most

much - more - most

Practice

Degrees of comparison; intermedate

https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/exercises/adjectives_adverbs/adjectives_comparison_sentences.htm

Degrees of comparison; easy

https://www.englishgrammar.org/degrees-comparison-exercise-2/

Degrees of comparison; easy

https://www.englishgrammar.org/degrees-of-comparison-exercise/

Quantifiers; much and many

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/quantifiers/qf008-much-many.htm

Quantifiers, few, little, a few, a little

https://www.english-grammar.at/online_exercises/quantifiers/qf012-little-few.htm