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Black Story

In the middle of the pavement Mollie and Minnie are lying in a pool of blood. What has happened?

Mollie = a cat,

She is cat, owned by a couple living on the third floor of an appartment building. The couple was fighting and the man threw Mollie to his wife (rather cruel). Mollie, however, missed the wife, and flew out of the window. She landed on Minnie, an elderly lady who was just passing by. She fell on the pavement (hit it with her head) and died, together with Mollie. 

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 sacroiliac
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

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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

http:// 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