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GRAMMAR JOURNAL - Articles/Quantifiers:

(before you spend time collecting examples for this assignment, be sure to read the WARNINGS here! -- you'll have to scroll down)
Collect examples of the following (cut and paste them to this form, or attach clippings or photocopies to a hardcopy of this form to be handed in). Include enough of the context (at least the sentence before and after) to make the meaning clear. (Document the source. It CANNOT be an English grammar text, handbook, or dictionary!):

Two of the following kinds of quantifiers:

    a. a quantifier with a definite, countable noun
    b. a quantifier with an indefinite, countable noun
    c. a quantifier with a definite, uncountable noun
    d. a quantifier with an indefinite, uncountable noun
For each (see the example):
    underline or bold the quantifier and the noun
    indicate whether the noun is:
      definite or indefinite, and
      countable or uncountable (if you can tell)
    To check to be sure you have found a quantifier, and what kind of noun you have found, form a question using how much .. ? or how many .. ? with the noun, and then answer it with the quantifier. (see the example)
YOU CAN KEEP RESUBMITTING THIS ASSIGNMENT
UNTIL YOU HAVE SUCCESFULLY FOUND TWO QUANTIFIERS

EXAMPLE:

 the noun is: INDEFINITE
it is: UNCOUNTABLE
noun phrase: little definite information
question/answer: how much information? little
The ancestral home at Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, is maintained as a Washington memorial. Little definite information exists on any of the line until Augustine. He was an energetic, ambitiouys man who acquired much land, built mills, took an interest in opening iron mines, and sent his two oldest sons to England for schooling.
(from George Washington: Encyclopedia Britannica OnLine)

1. the noun is:
                it is:

2. the noun is:
                it is:


Ann Salzmann
Intensive English Institute
University of Illinois