Scelta del quantificatore giusto

Solo con i sostantivi non numerabili	Con tutti i sostantivi	Solo con i sostantivi numerabili
a little	no, none, not any	a few
a bit of	some	a number of
	any	several
a great deal of	a lot of, lots of	a great number of
a large amount of	plenty of	a large number of

Uso di "much" e "many"

Much e many sono spesso usati nelle forme interrogative e negative. Sono anche usati con too e so nelle frasi affermative e negative. Attenzione: mentre many può essere utilizzato da solo in un'affermazione, lo stesso non vale per much. Much viene sostituito con le espressioni a lot of o lots of nelle affermazioni (queste espressioni possono sostituire anche many)

Sostantivo non numerabile	Sostantivo numerabile
How much sugar do you have?	How many people came to the concert?
There's not much sugar at the store.	Not many people came to the concert.
I have too much sugar at home.	There were too many people at the concert.
I don't know what to do with so much sugar.	It's a problem when there are so many people.
I wish there was not so much sugar here.	There were not so many people last year.
There is a lot of sugar in candy.	There are many people who want to come. = There are a lot of people who want to come.