English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
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Activity C3.1
✪ Activity C3.2 148 E X P L O R AT I O N Work out the word class of little on the lines below. In addition to being a determiner, pronoun or adverb, it can also be an adjective with the meaning of ‘small’. In this case it goes with singular or plural count nouns, and if the noun is singular it must have a determiner (such as a); if it is a determiner it means ‘a small amount’ and precedes noncount nouns. If you are not sure, try replacing little with small. If this is possible, then it is an adjective. 1. They have little to look forward to . . . 2. . . . to leave school and grow up in a world with little work. 3. . . . this is a decent little timewasting package . . . 4. . . . as you can see I returned a little early. 5. . . . many homeless families receive little or no health care. 6. I will tell you a little about the story line . 7. . . . but you had very little eye contact with Maggie. 8. . . . she found herself following him to the dark little bar . . . 9. . . . if things go ill, it is goodbye, but at little personal cost. 10. That was mainly because of a lot of niggly little injuries . . . 11. . . . [they] increasingly, as I grew older, understood very little of what I read. 12. . . . this is often little understood. 13. . . . too much to do in too little time . . . 14. . . . I always thought she looked a little bit like Blues official Dessie Moore . . . 15. . . . in order to make as little contact as possible with the soft oozing mud . . . 16. . . . whose talents have been all too little met by the emphasis on . . . Work out whether less is a determiner, adverb or pronoun on these lines: 1. The quicker you get to your opponent’s goal the less obstacles you find . . . 2. For the less wealthy, there were silver bracelets . . . 3. . . . a helicopter requires less power to maintain height . . . 4. Ban all bands with names of one syllable or less. 5. . . . some of this more recent legislation has been less effective in securing convictions. 6. . . . other conductors with a less complete control find it hard . . . 7. If she spoke less and listened more . . . 8. . . . this did not mean necessarily there was less literacy. 9. They want to use less fuel and cause less pollution . . . 10. In Britain this trend has been less marked . . . 11. . . . failure to provide adequate services means less is being achieved . . . 12. . . . and is therefore due to expire in less than ten years from now . . . Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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