English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
Activity C3.3
✪ Activity C3.4a ✪ U S A G E P R O B L E M S W I T H D E T E R M I N E R S 149 Now look at the same lines again and find where less is a determiner being used with a count noun, where it could be replaced by fewer. Look at these concordance lines and decide whether some is a) a determiner with a singular noncount noun b) a determiner with a count noun in the plural c) a pronoun d) an adverb 1. We did some blood tests . . . 2. . . . we’ll just have some music now. 3. More than 12,000 people . . . have been treated, and some have complained of glare . . . 4. [He] farms some 230 acres north of Chatteris . . . 5. . . . and in some cases this has caused a chafing . . . 6. We will carry out some work on this . . . 7. We hope soon to introduce paper banks at some of our larger stores . . . 8. Some publishers are making heavy weather of 1992. 9. They will inevitably replace humans in some medical tasks. 10. I’m writing to you with some good news . . . 11. Keep some of these in the house. 12. There’s some programme on tonight about it. Comments Activity C3.1: In 1 a few has a positive idea; it implies that more than expected turned up, given the conditions. In 2 few suggests a disappointing result; more should have because of the good weather. It has the same idea as ‘not many’. There is a similar positive/negative distinction between a little and little. Activity C3.2: In both cases fewer could be used: fewer people and fewer than. And some people would insist that it must be used, especially in 1. They cite a ‘rule’ that says that fewer (and few and fewest) should be used with count nouns (and little, less and least with noncount nouns). But concordance lines show that this usage is common (and it has been for a long time). And even people who object to 1 do not notice a problem with 2. Also, when we think about it, there is no similar distinction with more and most (though there is with much and many). Activity C3.3: Here are the answers: Determiner: 2, 5, 7, 9, 13 and 15. Pronoun: 1, 6 and 11. ✪ Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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