Quantifiers

These are ways you can talk about quantity if you can’t or don’t want to use exact number.

With countable nouns: (only) a few/(far) too many/How many…?

There were only a few people who saw them.

How many e-mails do you get every day?

With uncountable nouns: (only) a little/(far) too much/How much…?

There’s a little wine left but no beer.

How much sleep do you get at night?

With countable and uncountable nouns: a lot of/lots of/not enough

There are a lot of problems with this plan.

There was lots of good food at the party.

He didn’t give me enough information.