English · Advertising, Consumers and Safety
Expressing quantity — enough/too much/too many/few
Matching the right quantity word to a countable or an uncountable noun
5 minutes
The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.
What the syllabus expects from you
- Quantity expressions enough/too much/too many/(a) few/(a) little
- Countable vs uncountable noun agreement with these quantifiers
The method
- Sort the noun (countable/uncountable) first, then pick the matching quantifier
The common mistakes
- too much with a countable plural noun
- few vs a few (negative vs positive sense)
From the lesson
An energy drink ad shows athletes leaping under bright lights. The small print on the can says something the ad never mentions: three hundred calories and fifty five grams of sugar.
The vocabulary
- too many calories (كثير جدا من السعرات)
- enough exercise (تمارين كافية)