Uncountable nouns
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Countable nous
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Other
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| HOW MUCH water do you drink? | HOW MANY people were there? | |
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A FEW (and that was enough) |
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 I drink LITTLE water (not enough, I think I should drink more) |
There were FEW people (not enough, e.g. the party was boring) |
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| I drink ENOUGH water (sufficient) | There were ENOUGH people (sufficient, just the right number) | I'm tall ENOUGH to play basketball |
| I don't drink MUCH water (negative sentence) | There weren't MANY people (negative sentence) | |
| I drink A LOT OF water | There were A LOT OF people | He eats A LOT. |
 I drink TOO MUCH water (more than necessary) |
 There were TOO MANY people (more than necessary) |
 I'm TOO tired I'm going to bed.
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To practise a little more, please visit tolearnenglish (lots of links here), grammar.ccc or esl-lounge. For longer sentences go to grammarbank.
