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Complete the alien tourist's postcard to their home planet by choosing the right quantifiers.
Greetings from Earth! Humans are strange. They drink _________________________ coffee every single day. I haven't met _________________________ friendly humans yet, which is disappointing. There isn't _________________________ space in their tiny homes either—where would I even park my spaceship?
The correct answers are a lot of, many, and much.
A lot of is used in affirmative sentences with uncountable nouns (like coffee). While much can appear with uncountable nouns, it sounds unnatural in affirmative sentences in everyday English (They drink much coffee is overly formal and rare). Many is used with plural countable nouns (like humans) in negative sentences. Much cannot be used with countable nouns, and a lot of is less typical in negative constructions with haven't. Much is used with uncountable nouns (like space) in negative sentences. Many cannot be used with uncountable nouns, and a lot of is less natural in negative sentences with isn't.
EasyA2 | Elementary | Pre-intermediateQuantifierCountable and uncountableEnglish grammarDeterminerNegationNounHumor
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