Task 19. Read the text and underline all quantifying expressions you can find

Task 18. Read the following sentences and translate them in class.

C. Comparing numbers and quantities

Task 17. Read a paragraph and match the words in bold with their explanations below.

B. Other nouns relating to quantity

A. Number and Amount

Learners of English often choose the wrong noun relating to quantity. For example, you say

Phrase	Note	Example
a great deal of (informal) a large/great amount of (formal)	+ uncountable noun	money energy data
a large numberof	+ plural noun	articles books experiments

Adjectives that can be use with both words:

small considerable substantial significant enormous

total surprising excessive [too much/many] fair [quite a lot] reasonable [acceptable]

+

a number an amount

The size of our survey was relatively small-scale. We sent out 200 questionnaires in total (1). Although a couple (2) of people did not respond, the bulk (3) of those sent questionnaires have completed them. The survey shows that, as a whole (4), the population is becoming more aware of the importance of space exploration. Only one of (5) our respondents said that he is totally against the idea.

a) considered as a group rather than individually

b) one out of many respondent s

c) in all

d) the majority

e) two or three, a few

Expression	Meaning /Synonym
exceeding (formal)	higher/bigger than
fewer and fewer / less and less	a steadily declining/decreasing number of, decreasingly (formal)
more and more	a steadily increasing amount of, increasingly (formal)
more or less (slightly informal)	mostly
approximately	mostly
no fewer than	used to suggest the number was unexpectedly large

1. Results exceeding 5 cm were eliminated from the survey.
2. The experiment was more or less a success.
3. No fewer than 200 people responded.
4. Fewer and fewer people are staying in the same job throughout their lives.
5. Young people are becoming less and less interested in politics.

For some years now, scientists have been using a powerful new machine to recreate the conditions that existed at the birth of the universe. The machine generates a massive number of hot, dense, bursts of matter and energy, simulating what happened in the first few microseconds of the beginning of the universe. After no more than ten microseconds, the particles of matter joined together, like water freezing into ice, forming the origin of more or less everything we see in the universe today.

Task 20. Complete the sentences using the correct forms of the words in italics. The words are taken from all “Grammar 1” part.

1. In a ___________ number of cases, there was no reaction at all to the drug. surprise
2. The analysis demanded an ___________ amount of computer time. exceed
3. ___________ numbers of birds inhabit the lake during the winter. consider
4. The course requires a ___________ amount of prior knowledge of computers. reason
5. The survey took a ___________ amount of research time and costs were high. substance
6. In ___________, 12 areas of the Southern Indian Ocean are now closed to deep-sea fishing. totality
7. Groups ___________ four people were considered too large for the experiment. exceed
8. No ___________ than 2,000 new computer viruses are created every year. few
9. In a ___________ number of cases, surface damage was noticed. signify

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