Business English C1 · Lesson 7B

Grammar Bank

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advanced quantifiers & determiners

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Advanced quantifiers & determiners
Precision about proportion, scope and exception.
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Rules & form
- ›the majority of, a significant proportion of, barely any, hardly any.
- ›few / a few and little / a little carry opposite attitudes.
- ›each / every / either / neither + singular; none of + singular or plural.
- ›Partitives for uncountables: a body of evidence, a degree of risk.
Examples
- “The vast majority of respondents favoured the change.”
- “Few of the objections were substantive.”
- “There is a degree of uncertainty in every forecast.”
Watch out · few = a negative message; a few = a positive one.
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