English · Feelings and Emotions

Quantifiers with emotion/abstract nouns

Match the quantifier to the shape of the emotion noun

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6 minutes

The academic content is in Arabic, as at the BAC and as in the app.

What the syllabus expects from you

  • Quantifiers with emotion nouns (much/a lot of/little joy, few worries)

The method

  1. Sort the emotion noun (countable/uncountable) first, then pick the matching quantifier

The common mistakes

  • 'many' used with an uncountable emotion noun (many happiness)

From the lesson

Read these two sentences about the same topic: feelings before an exam.

The vocabulary

  • a lot of joy (الكثير من الفرح)

What is not on the syllabus

  • Likes/dislikes, reciprocal pronouns (previous concepts)

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