OTHER DETERMINERS
FIRST YEAR PRACTICAL ENGLISH GRAMMAR COURSESET 4
Other determiners
identifying what you are talking about: 1.161-1.236I. Insert a
determiner where possible. Consider different options:1. Itll take
___ time to repair your car.
2. ___ fog will clear by noon.
3. I need ___ help with the shopping.
4. Shes lived in Italy for ___ time.
5. We have exported ___ four thousand tons this year.
6. Have you got ___ beer?
7. Lets have dinner together ___ time next week.
8. Do you mind if I put ___ music on?
9. The noise from the party stopped me getting ___ sleep.
10. There are ___ children at the front door.
11. Did you meet ___ interesting people during your holiday?
12. She hasnt got ___ manners.
13. I need ___ new shirts.
14. ___ cars parked in this road will be towed away.
15. I suddenly realized Id come out without ___ money.
16. ___ cigarette is harmless.
17. You never give me ___ help.
18. You dont look ___ older than your daughter.
19. I can write with ___ hand.20. Ask ___ doctor.
21. When shall I come?___ time.
22. Have you bought ___ paper and a pen?
23. Can you go ___ faster?
24. We got there without ___ trouble.
25. Theres little point in doing ___ more work now.
26. Shouldnt there be ___ instructions with it?
27. If you want ___ help, let me know.
28. Theres hardly ___ left.
29. Would you like ___ more tea?
30. I need to buy ___ new clothes.
31. I forgot to get ___ bread.
32. This school isnt ___ different from the last one.
33. Is there ___ milk left?
34. I need ___ razor blades.
35. Have you got ___ glasses I could borrow?
II. Correct what is wrong and explain:1. A: Sugar? B: Little,
please.
2. His second suggestion was little better than his first.
3. I was some fifteen miles from the nearest village.4. Check if
you are in any doubt.5. The woman lived for other ten days.6. They
are either asleep or entirely absorbed in play or other activity.7.
Theres some chocolate cake over there. 8. No argument could move
either old gentlemen from this decision.9. He sat in the back of
the car with a policeman on either side.10. He was well-known for
having many money.11. Most people recover but the disease is very
unpleasant.12. Denis held his cocoa in both hands.13. Almost each
chair is broken.14. Few strength is necessary to make this
happen.15. You dont speak much English, do you?16. All the money in
the world cannot make you feel as good as this.17. Do you watch
much TV?18. Few flowers are enough to make a woman happy.19. We
have certain ideas about what topics are suitable.20. It was quite
a surprise.21. Little information at the right moment will do you
no harm.22. We have made certain progress in what we are doing.23.
More money is to come in through this project.24. More chairs would
certainly be of use.25. We need machinery which uses less
energy.26. She is such a great cook!27. There are less chairs here
than necessary. 28. Not each child is happy with this task.29. What
a lovely creature you are!30. There is too little value attached to
being yourself in our conformist society.31. It was rather a
pleasant moment for me.32. All the boys started to giggle.
33. She paid double the sum.
34. He wrote great many novels.
35. Devolution in Wales has not made very much difference in
economic terms.
36. The women are expected to like babies.
37. The train has a twenty minute delay.
38. After three months' delay, work finally began on the new
building.
39. The man is a peaceful creature.
40. Men are not allowed in the convent.III. Replace the
underlined words with their equivalents: a few, a little, few or
little1. Not many people are interested in Hindi.
2. There is not much point in quarelling about it.
3. Some children are impossible to please.
4. Theres not much hope.
5. Go to the shop and bring back some lemons.
6. There arent many cars out today.
7. Theres not much water left.
8. Clive does not take much interest in sports.
9. How much money is there? Not much.
IV. Translate into English paying particular attention to the
underlined parts: 1. .
2. .
3. .
4. , .
5. .
6. .
7. , .8. . ?
9. .
10. .
11. .
12. ?
13. .
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15. - .
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20. ?
21. .Quantifiers and Partitives (1)talking about quantities and
amounts: 2.193-2.224referring to an exact number of things: numbers
2.225-2.288I. Insert one of the following quantifiers in the
sentences below:
a good deal of a great deal of heaps of lots of the majority of
many of some of tons of the whole of a number of1. There was
________ concern about energy shortages.
2. ________ people eat ________ bread.
3. I couldnt believe it the children ate absolutely ________
food at the party!
4. Hes devoted ________ work towards producing ________ fresh
vegetables.
5. ________ the refugees have enough to eat, but ________ them
have very little.
6. There were quite ________ delegates at the conference.
7. Dont worry, youve got ________ time!
8. We spent ________ the summer gardening, and managed to do
________ the work.9. Children have ________ energy.II. Choose one
noun for each partitive structure:
beer brandy butter cardboard coal corn dust dirt evidence flame
flour glass glue grass honey jam lemon light linen mayo metal oil
paint plastic potatoes red algae rubbish rubble rum salt sand
toothpaste trouble truth whisky yoghurt
1. a grain of
7. a barrel of2. a sheet of
8. a sack of
3. a knob of
9. a tumbler of4. a clump of
10. a speck of5. a heap of
11. a shred of
6. a blob of
12. a dash of
III. Choose a suitable partitive for each of the following
nouns:1. a . of fruit
17. a of fresh air
2. a of petrol
18. a of applause
3. a of milk
19. a of fun
4. a of toothpaste
20. a of dust
5. a of medicine
21. a of glass
6. a of beer
22. a of news
7. a of potatoes
23. a of soap
8. a of margarine
24. a of celery
9. a of chocolate
25. a of garlic
10. a of jam
26. a of salt
11. a of soda (in my whisky)
27. a of dry weather
12. a of thunder
28. a of fog
13. a of lightning
29. a of bacon
14. a of cloth
30. a of cigarettes
15. a of bad luck
31. a of romance
16. a of hope
32. a of cat food
IV. Correct the mistakes if any:1. Nearly all of the increase
has been caused by inflation.
2. The whole of Europe have been interested in this project.
3. Much of the days was spent shopping and going to
restaurants.
4. The whole of last year was a happy time for all of us.
5. Most of the population is engaged in agriculture.
6. He's a good friend of mine and all the rest of the staff
here.
7. The UK, some people say, needs more bricklayers and plumbers
and less of the thousands of media studies graduates our
universities produce.
8. There is plenty of beer for each and every one of us.
9. A good deal of students dont understand what it is all
about.
10. Brush the edges of the pastry with a little of the beaten
egg.
11. Loads of money are going to be spent on building and
improving playgrounds in England.
12. A great many research is thought to be of only indirect
significance.
13. We had loads of room.14. Dont worry theres loads of
time.
15. There was a good deal of oil all over the couch.
16. There is plenty of reasons why young people might want to
spend three years of their life in Cambridge.
17. Less of the jewels in the shop-windows are original now.
18. Part of the farm lay close to the river bank.
19. Some of the milk was sour.
20. You have to do a great deal of work in order to earn a very
large amount of money.
21. Quite few of them were good sopranos.
22. You can put here a tiny quantity of sugar and it will taste
just great.
23. Each of the papers are grounded in a particular linguistic
theory.
24. He is man of quite a lot of experience.
25. Unfortunately few of the news they heard were good.
26. Some of the best actors are actually very good painters.
27. It would cost far too much to have the thing repaired.
28. The remainder of the luggage are stored at the back.
29. The remainder of the troops aboard were ordered too leave
the ship.30. None of the money were we expected them to be.31.
Although he didn't have many redeeming features, he had a certain
amount of charm.
32. I'll leave the rest of the cake on the bar with some little
gateau forks for the fastidious among you.
33. Lots of good news is sometimes hard to handle.
34. Masses of books covered every surface in the room.
35. Plenty of producers come here every year.
36. Who could blame him if little of this newfound power went to
his head?37. Its about time they got a taste of their own
medicine!38. A great deal of workers are quite content with their
place of work.
39. The common view is that US relations with the rest of the
world would improve under Mr Obama.
40. Each of the teachers were unhappy with the students
results.
41. Enough of skull survived for archaeologists to be confident
the body was that of a woman.42. Everyone of them is given a
financial target.V. Translate into English:
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3. .
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5. .
6. .
7. .
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9. .
10. .
11. .
12. .
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VI. Fill in the blanks using as and like:1. The skyscrapers of
New York are ___ impenetrable cliffs of stone and cement.
2. She appeared on the screen ___ Florence but no one could be
less ___ a nurse in reality.
3. Since he got that job ___ a traffic warden, he regards
everybody ___ a potential criminal.
4. The estate agent described it ___ cozy and well-fitted. It
was ___ a prison cell.
5. John was easy-going ___ his mother but Jeff gets worked up
about the slightest little things, just ___ his father does.
6. She runs ___ the wind, but she cannot boast of too much
intellectual prowess.
7. Darren sings ___ a coloured mid-20s jazzman would but these
days such a style is not really very popular.
8. Before yesterday I knew you ___ my elder sister. Now you want
me to love you ___ a mother.
9. Should you decide to do ___ I will, call Mom but remember
that she is nothing ___ me.
10. The trouble is that nobody here works anymore ___ we used to
before we got elected.
VII. Transform the following sentences using as as or not as/ so
as1. She enjoys her work more than Alan does.
2. This is the happiest day of my life.
3. Hes a lot less interesting to talk to than he used to be.
4. His later books have the same appeal as his earlier ones.
5. I speak better German than Alice.
6. Shes less arrogant than I thought.
VIII. Put one suitable word into each gap:1. There were as as
one thousand guests at the wedding.
2. He said I could have as money as I wanted.
3. As as working during the day in an office, she also works in
the evening in a restaurant.
4. You can borrow it as as you promise to look after it.
5. As as I heard the news, I told all my friends.
6. You can do what you like as as I am concerned.
IX. Correct the mistakes if any:1. How many percents are the
boys in your group?
2. The table was six foot long.
3. It measures approximately 26 inch wide and 25 inch long.
4. He was about six feet tall.
5. My car does about thirty miles by gallon.
6. It cost several thousands pounds.
7. Two and half hours like this and it will be well-cooked,
other two hours and it will be the most delicious thing you ever
tasted.
8. But youve got dozens of dresses.
9. Were doing seventy miles in hour.
10. The glass was three-quarter full of some liquid, I dont know
what liquid.
11. The cake is thick twenty-five centimetre.
12. The building is five hundred meters in length.
13. Two dozens papers waited for the Professor to sign them.
14. Half the girls thought the book brilliant.
15. Their garden is 100 feet square approximately.
16. Half of it is sheer nonsense.
17. Half bottle of this and you wont remember your name.
18. She has a child on thirteen; she cant be twenty-five.
19. That three-year-old can really make you mad.
20. How many feet above sea level is Roseberry Topping?21. How
do you say that to a man at his sixties?
22. I used to ski a lot in my teens.
23. She seems to me a woman at her late forty.
24. The over-sixty are a great, energetic generation.
25. Schooling for under-fives should be expanded.
26. Its at least a thousand millions years old.
27. They get minimum $ 2000 monthly each.
28. It is three kilos heavy.
29. The pool was twenty feet deep.30. Very early glass made at
Jarrow can be seen today reset in a window in the eighth-century
church there.31. Four-fifths of the students were required to take
additional exams.
32. Half of your time is occupied with leisure activities.33.
Two-thirds of the planets surface are covered with water.34. He has
200 employees roughly.35. He has minimum 200 employees.36. He has
at least 200 employees.37. He has 200 employees at least.38. Ill be
away for 3 hours at the most.39. Ill be away for at most 3
hours.40. Ill be away for 3 hours or under.1. X. Translate into
English:
2. 5000 .3. .4. .5. .6. 7 %.7. , .8. .9. .10. ?11. ?12. - .13. ;
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