Quantifiers - A basket of clothes

She is lying next to a basket of clothes

Quantifiers (lượng từ) are used to express quantity i.e. the amount of something; how many/much.

With countable nouns like apples, for example, we can ask and answer:

How many apples do you want?
I want four apples.

Notice we use many with countable nouns.

Quantifiers with non-countable nouns

Now let's take a look at a non-countable noun: wine.

Because wine is uncountable we use a quantifier to make it countable.

In this case we use the container it usually comes inside:

How many bottles of wine do you want?
I want four bottles of wines.

We use quantifiers to make non-countable nouns countable.

Some other common examples are:

a cup of coffee
a box of chocolates
a carton of milk

Key Words

Use these following quantifiers in the sentences below.

• can
• box
• head
• loaf
• tube
• bunch
• roll
• packet
• bar
• pinch

Use the correct quantifiers in these sentences:

• 1 - I need to blow my nose. Pass me that ___ of tissues.
• 2 - She bought a ___ of bread so we can make sandwiches.
• 3 - My husband surprised me with a ___ of flowers.
• 4 - There's a ___ of soap in the bathroom.
• 5 - Add a ___ of salt to the soup for flavour.
• 6 - They don't sell beer in bottles here. Have a ___ instead.
• 7 - We' already eaten that whole ___ of biscuits!
• 8 - There's a ___ of lettuce in the fridge.
• 9 - We need a new ___ of toilet paper.
• 10 - I forgot to pack my ___ of toothpaste.