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Plenty as a pronoun. We use plenty as a pronoun to mean ‘enough’ or ‘more than enough’: A: How much money do you think I need to bring with me? B: About one hundred pounds should be plenty. [A is pouring milk into B’s coffee] A: Is that enough? B: That’s plenty. Thanks. Plenty of as a quantifier.
Grammar. Both lots and plenty are quantifiers used in affirmative sentences. They can be placed before singular or plural countable and uncountable nouns. Although lots and plenty are acceptable in academic writing, their usage is considered to be informal.
- Quantifiers with Count and Uncount Nouns
- Some and Any
- Quantifiers with Count Nouns
- Quantifiers with Uncount Nouns
- Members of Groups
- Both, Either and Neither
- Every and Each
We can use these quantifiers with both count and uncount nouns: Level: intermediate These more colloquial formsare also used with both count and uncount nouns: Level: beginner
We do not normally use the quantifier some in negative and interrogative sentences. We normally use any: but we can use somefor offers and requests:
Some quantifiers can be used only with count nouns: These more colloquial formsare used only with count nouns:
Some quantifiers can be usedonly with uncount nouns: These quantifiers are used particularly with abstract nouns such as time, money and trouble: Level: intermediate
We put a noun directly after a quantifier when we are talking about members of a group in general: but if we are talking about members of a specific group, we use of theas well: Note: with all andboth, we don’t need to useof. We can sayall the … and both the … .
If we are talking about two people or things, we use the quantifiers both, either and neither: Note that nouns with both have a plural verb but nouns with either andneither have a singular verb.
We use the quantifiers every and each with singular nouns to mean all: We often use every to talk about times like days, weeks and years: We do not use a determiner with every and each:
1. A lot of/ Lots of / A lot. A lot of and lots of have the same meaning, they both mean a large amount or number of people or things. They are both used before countable plural and uncountable nouns. But in informal English it is better to use many and much rather than a lot, lots of and plenty of. • A lot of/ lots of people went to the ground.
Hace 6 días · 1 Examples: There are a few plums. I don't think we need to buy any today. There are few cherries; we'd better go and buy some. There's a little time left. (= We still have enough time left.) There's little time left. (= We do not have enough time left.) A few and few are used with plural nouns; a little and little, with uncountable ones.
Así, en resumen: usamos plenty of cuando queremos expresar la idea de que hay algo de sobra. Por otro lado, utilizamos quite a lot of/a few/a bit of cuando queremos decir que hay bastante (s) o mucho (s) . ¡Veamos cómo se usan! La teoría. Plenty of ( /pléntiavvv/) se coloca delante de sustantivos contables o incontables: There is plenty of wine.
Algunos de los cuantificadores más frecuentes en inglés son: some/any, much/many, (a) few/ (a) little, lots of/a lot of y enough. Aprende a reconocer y utilizar correctamente los cuantificadores en inglés y pon a prueba tus habilidades en la sección de ejercicios.
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