Much, many and lot of: quantifiers exercises

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Much, many and a lot of are the most well-known and used quantifiers in English. We have already talked about them on other occasions and, in this post, we bring you some exercises for you to practice. Good luck with them!

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1. Correct and improve

In the following paragraphs, use much/ many/ a lot of, as appropriate. Be careful! In portugal phone number list cases you will have to correct them and in others you can improve the sentence by using them.

Amy's had many problems with her back for a lot of years. She's having an operation next week and she won't be back at work for a good deal of weeks afterwards.

“There's bound to be a lot of people on the queue for the tickets. “Perhaps we should leave now.” – “Don't worry, there's plenty of time left, and being Friday many people must be still working.”

Many think that hedgehogs are very rare nowadays, but when I was in Wales I saw many.

A lot have claimed that Professor Dowman's study on current attitudes to politics is flawed. One criticism is that too many people questioned in the survey were under 18.

A lot of research has been conducted on the influence of stress on heart disease. However, a lot remains to be done before it is considered a public health problem.

2. Expressions with quantifiers
You already know that in this blog we like to teach you English expressions. These will make you speak English as if it were your mother tongue. In this exercise we bring you some expressions that use much / many / a lot of ; will you know which one to use in each case? To help you a little, we have included the translation.