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Vocabulary: big quantities - English lesson
This lesson is the first one of a series enabling us to review QUANTITIES.
We'll learn to express or revise how to estimate quantities, whether they are big ones, little
ones, or of medium size.
A quantity/ an amount |
A reasonable/ moderate/ modest quantity of/ A reasonable/ moderate/ modest amount of |
As there are many different expressions and as precise examples will be necessary, I have
chosen to deal with this huge part of grammar in several lessons.
BIG QUANTITIES:
A lot/ A great deal/ Very much |
A lot of/ much + uncountable noun |
A lot of/ many + countable noun |
Quite a lot of/ a fair amount of + uncountable |
A good many/ / quite a lot of |
The majority of/ most + countable noun |
To be the majority |
much of + uncountable noun |
- He reads a lot/ he reads a great deal
- He doesn't read (very) much/a lot/ a great deal
- There is a lot of milk left
- There isn't a lot of/ much milk left
- A lot of them/ many of them believed it
- There were lots of people
- I know a great many people/ a lot of people who...
- He has quite a lot of/ a fair amount of money
- She bought quite a lot of/ a good many books
- Most/ The majority of candidates
- most people ( a large proportion of people)
- much of the book (a big part of the book)
Here are already many expressions to remember! Be careful, these expressions are quite alike.
The smallest variation may give a very different meaning to your words! Go for it!

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