Quantifiers in a table
Let us now see how the quantifier situation can be summarised in a table.
Quantifiers indicating large or fairly large quantities | |||
| Uncountable nouns | ||
Standard Quantifiers |
| much | |
Alternative quantifiers |
| considerable amounts of | |
| a great deal of | ||
| large amounts of | ||
| a large amount of | ||
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| large quantities of | ||
Informal quantifiers |
| a lot of | |
| lots of | ||
| loads of | ||
| plenty of |