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Count and noncount nouns.. A lot of is used with both count and noncounr nouns.. Many is used with count nouns.. A little is used with noncount nouns.. SP-R A book open: How much water

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JSE 9 Noncount abstractions (Chart 11-

Directim: In groups or by yourself, complete the

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ictionary or discuss it with your teacher.)

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a Name four good qualities you admire in a person

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b Name bad qualities people can have

c What are some of the most important things in life? , .'y?

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d Certain bad conditions exist in the world What are they?

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EXERCISE 10 Count and noncount nouns (Charts 11-1 + 1 1-4'1

Erections: Choose one of the given topics Make a written list of the things you see

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Example: You're sitting in your office List the things you see

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three desk lawps

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1 Sit in any room of your choosing List the things you see (including thiigs other people are wearing if you wish)

2 Look out a window List the things and people you see

3 Go to a place outdoors (a park, a zoo, a city street) and list what you see

4 Travel in your imagination to a room you lived in when you were a child List everything you can remember about that room

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11-5 USING SEVERAL, A LOT OF, MANYIMUCH, AND A

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EXERCISE 11 SEVERAL, A LOT OF, and MANYJMUCH (Charts 11-1 + 1 1-5)

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@) a lot of chairs

(c) many chairs

(d) a feu, chairs

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a lot of furniture

much furniture

a little furniture

3 Ted bought a lot of chairs

A lot of is used with both count and noncounr nouns

Many is used with count nouns

Much is used with noncount nouns

A little is used with noncount nouns

5 Alice bought too much furniture

6 She bought too much chairs

7 Dr Lee bought a few furniture for his new office

9 H e has several new furnitures in his office

10 H e has several new chairs in his office

11 There is d o t of desk in this room

12 There are a lot of furnitures in Dr Lee's office

EXERCISE 12 HOW MANY and HOW MUCH (Charts 11-1 + 11-5)

Direczions: Create questions with how many or how much Use the information in

parentheses to form Speaker A's question

B: Three (The M i e r s have three children.)

B: A lot (Jake makes a lot of money.)

B: Eleven (There are eleven players on a soccer team.)

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B: Just a little (I have just a little homework to do tonight.)

B: A lot (There are a lot of apples in the baskets.)

B: A lot (There is a lot of fruit in the baskets.)

B: Ten (There are ten provinces in Canada.) ,ti! ::

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B: Just a little (I knew just a little Japanese before I moved to Japan.) -

B: Approximately 22,000 (There are approximately 22,000 kinds of fish in the world.)

B: A lot (You should buy a lot of cheese.) It looks really good

B: Two cups (I drink two cups of coffee every day.)

B: Several pieces (There are several pieces of chalk in the chalk tray.)

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EXERCISE 13 MANY vs MUCH (Charts 11-1 + 11-5)

Directions: Work in pairs

correct answer and can tell you how close you are to the correct answer Your book is closed

Example: water: You drink x every day

SP-R A (book open): How much water do you drink every day?

SPEAKER B (book closed): I try to drink at least six glasses of water every day

Example: page: There are x in this chapter (Answer: 32)

SPEAKER A (book open): How many pages are there in this chapter?

SPEAKER B (book closed): I don't know I'd guess there are about thirty

SPEAKER A (book open): Very close! There are 32 pages in this chapter

1 tea:

2 word:

3 money:

4 bone:

5 tooth:

6 mail:

Switch roles

7 sugar:

8 language:

9 English:

10 people:

1 1 human being:

12 butterfly:

You got x yesterday

EXERCISE 14 A FEW vs A LIlTLE (Charts 11-1 + 11-5)

Directions: Complete the sentences by using a few or a little and the given noun Use the plural form of the noun when necessary

REMINDER: Use a few with a count noun: afew songs

Use a little with a noncount noun: a little music

2 song We sang ol f e w s 6 h9s at the party

4 pepper My grandfather doesn't use extra salt, but he always puts

on his hard-boiled egg

way home from work tonight

6 apple

7 fruit

8 advice

9 m o n q

10 coin

1 1 friend

12 rain

13 Fwnch

14 hour

, 15 worhpaste

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16 chicken

I need

came by last night to visit us

I think I'll take my umbrella with me

any Italian at all

toothbrush, not half the tube!

When I was a child, we raised in our backyard

a little chicken I a little chlcken I a few chickens I

a blq chicken I a lot of chicken I a lot of chickens

I bought a lid* apple = I bought one apple, and it wes small, not large

1 1 1 -6 NOUNS THAT CAN BE COUNT OR NONCOUNT

usages for some common nouns follow

NOUN USED AS A N O N W W NOUN USED AS A COUNT NOUN

g h s (a) Windows are made of glass (b) I drank a glass of water

hair (d) Rita has brown hair (e) There's a hair on my jacket

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iron

light

paw

I work 1 (0) I have s o m e wonk to do tonieht I (D) That ~aintine is a wonk of art I

chicken1 (s) I ate some chickdamnefish 1 (t) She drew a picture of a ch*hn/a&h

(f) Iron is a metal

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ex@- (u) I haven't had much ex@enhce (v) I had many interesting expwknces on my

I I with m m p u m (l don't have m u d I trip (Many interesting events happened to

(k) I wrote a papev for Professor Lee

EXERCISE 15 Nouns that can be count or noncount (Chart 11-6)

Directions: Complete the sentences with the given words Choose words in parentheses as necessary

2 chieken My grandmother raises ckicbe~s in her yard

4 I really like that movie I saw it three

5 paper Students in Prof Young's literature class have t o write a lot of

6 paper Students who take thorough lecture notes use a lot of

7 paper The New York Times is (a, some) famous

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8 work Rodin's statue of "The Thiiker" is one of my favorite

of art

office

9 work

10 light

11 light

12 hair

13 hair

14 glass

15 glass

16 glass

17 iron

ruin photographic negatives

the school building

Brian has a white cat When I stood up from Brian's sofa, my black slacks were covered with short white

countries, they use cups

them

(is, are) necessary to animal and plant life

long career as a diplomat

20 experience You should apply for the job at the electronics company only if you have a