How to Talk about Quantities in English (Too much, Too many, Few, Little)

rolling hi everybody and welcome back to our weekly live stream my name is alicia and in this week's lesson we are going to talk about how to talk about quantities we are going to cover countable and uncountable nouns and how we can count them and we're also going to talk about these expressions like too much or too many or a few and few and what's the difference between them we're also going to talk about little and a little finally we are going to talk about using enough and any as well so this lesson will include some kind of beginner level grammar that's okay for beginners but i also hope intermediate learners and maybe advanced learners can find a few points especially about the differences between these two things here so there's a lot to cover today so i want to get started as soon as possible if you are watching live please make sure to hit the like button and share this video so other people can find today's lesson that would be awesome a couple quick announcements while we 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we are good to go on facebook as well hi facebook welcome everybody on facebook okay so everything is going okay we are connected so today's lesson is about quantities as i said we're going to cover countable and uncountable nouns a lot in this lesson so uh let's get started uh with the first part um i'll show you today's lesson boards now so you can take a picture it looks like facebook is okay good tran hello alicia gonzalez hi we have similar names steve hello what's the difference between past perfect and future tense check our youtube and facebook videos the english class 101 videos that is a different topic from today's lesson but i have made many videos about those topics okay i'll show you today's lesson boards then here is our uh flow for today first we're going to talk about countable and uncountable nouns the basics super super basics i'm not going to talk about details today i have a couple videos about this then we're going to talk about a few and few a little little what the difference is key differences here and then finally we're going to talk about enough and any okay so for today's lesson i chose um i wanted to focus on topics that i notice many learners have questions about or that i read lots of mistakes so uh so sometimes i read your comments all the time all the time and i notice many mistakes about this topic uh so i chose those points for today uh i'm going to share the lesson okay and get started okay so let's begin first countable nouns and uncountable nouns what is this okay so countable nouns and uncountable nouns may be a beginner grammar point for some of you maybe it's a new grammar point for some of you basically countable nouns are nouns we can count with numbers that means we we make a countable noun the plural form with an s sound an s sound so for example a marker is a countable noun i can count it with numbers i can say one marker two markers three markers and so on to make the countable or i'm sorry to make the plural form we simply add an s sound so here are some more examples of countable nouns dog student cookie car so we add s to make the plural form so more than one yeah so dogs students cookies cars okay so this is a countable noun an uncountable noun on the other hand is a noun we cannot count with numbers we cannot say one this or two that for an uncountable noun we use counter words to do this so here are some examples of uncountable nouns we have air water time money so we can't say one money or one time we don't use one two three before these nouns we use counters so for example with water a bottle of water or a glass of water we use those counters to express the amounts or the quantities with uncountable nouns right okay so this is the basic then we need to think about countable and uncountable nouns the difference is when we want to talk about how much or how many of something we have so let's begin with countable nouns just a few examples here when you want to express a large number of something a countable noun you can use for example these expressions lots of something many something tons of or a lot of there are many different expressions we can use to talk about large numbers but these are very very common so we use lots of plus the plural form like lots of markers or many students or tons of dogs or a lot of cookies yeah so we use the plural form noun plus s after this to express a large number okay then on the other hand oh uh samir abu writes bottles of waters uh no we would say bottles of water we don't put an s at the end of this here bottles of water your counter word is plural here okay then on the other hand when you want to talk about large amounts of uncountable nouns you can use expressions like these so lots of is okay to use for both yeah lots of is good for both we can use tons of also a lot of and then i have here much this is a key point i see with learners lots of learners think oh i use many in this expression with countable nouns much here but we cannot use much in a positive sentence when we're talking about quantity so for example it's incorrect to say i have much time that's incorrect we only use much with negative sentences so for example i don't have much time okay so this is one kind of strange point to think about okay yes uh mode usery huge yeah huge is an adjective right so you can say a huge amount of something yes so there are many different expressions we can use to talk about large numbers or large amounts i chose in for today's lesson i chose very very common expressions we use okay all right okay i don't see other questions some interesting examples are coming in gentinee says lots of dogs eat pizza is that true okay all right good uh someone on facebook sorry i can't read your name says i don't have much time good good good okay let's continue so we talked about large numbers and large amounts now let's talk about small numbers and small amounts this leads us to part two for today's lesson so to talk about a small number you can use some or a few or few what's the difference here we're going to talk about this in part two of today's lesson the difference between a few and few what is the deal on the other hand for uncountable nouns we can use some also so some is okay here with both we can use a little and little and again you might think what is the difference between those part two i'm going to focus on these points in part two okay then this is another thing i've noticed some learners make mistakes with when you want to express that you have more of something than you need if your noun is countable you can say too many too many for example i have too many books i have too many books like i have no space i have too many books if your noun is uncountable you use i have too much free time so in this expression we can it's okay to say too much this is fine but we cannot use much i have much free time is incorrect okay so please note we cannot use so in this expression uh sometimes i see learners using so and two in the same way it's incorrect i'm going to talk about that in next week's live lesson actually okay so this is the basis for today's lesson countable and uncountable nouns we need to know this to understand the rest of today's lesson the other points okay so if you have questions uh please send them in the chat i will try to check your questions live okay looks good so let's go to a very short break and then we're going to talk about few and little and a few and a little okay cool so if you haven't please do make sure please make sure to hit the like button yeah hit the thumbs up and share the video it will help other people uh to find today's lesson okay all right uh also if you missed it earlier there is free stuff for you from the link below the video if you're watching on youtube or above the video if you're watching on facebook so here's i chose a few that i usually don't show you here's a pdf about free time activities leisure time activities means free time the stuff you do in your free time so you can find weekend plan expressions on the back like what are you doing this weekend i'm going to something something something yeah i have to decide that i was thinking about that this week what are you doing this weekend okay so you can check this out and find some ideas for your weekend down here or i was also looking i show you this one uh sometimes the business english one two on the back are phrases you can use for a business meeting there are also quite a few new pdfs on the website so if you checked before uh and downloaded all of them check again because there's the team added a lot of new things so don't miss it you can still download it okay oh good some questions are coming um dennis on facebook youtube says can i say i did so many mistakes close say i made so many mistakes we say to make a mistake to make a mistake that's a set phrase i made so many mistakes okay uh says i don't need more snacks i already have too many snacks oh really i can never have too many snacks i love snacks so okay uh good let's go to uh part two part two so uh let's talk about few and a few and uh little and a little this is a small difference i know but it changes the feeling of your sentence a lot this decision so this is a key point for intermediate learners i think and advanced learners please please please remember this okay so let's look a few phew what's the deal here so this part is about countable nouns that's the first point we use a few and few with countable nouns so in this sentence i'm going to in these two sentences i'm going to compare the differences so let's read first what's the difference my company bought a few computers my company bought a few computers okay and my company bought few computers my company bought few computers both sentences are 100 correct no problem they're great great sentences perfect so what's the difference the difference is right here this up so my company bought a few computers or my company bought few computers what's the difference this sentence here with a few sounds like a simple neutral fact i'm giving you information oh my company bought a few computers last week it's just basic information like a report yeah this sentence my company bought few computers sounds like a negative situation or a negative condition so my company bought few computers we need a lot though our team is growing so this small change shows us that the situation is negative or maybe there was a negative effect we'll see the same thing with little in just a minute so this uh shows us simple report simple fact no up here shows it's a negative situation or condition however there is one one case or one uh one situation where it does not mean it's negative in this example sentence my company has few problems so here i have few no uh my company has few problems if the noun after few problems is a negative noun the feeling of the sentence is positive so one important point when i say negative noun here i mean this noun means something bad something that's a problem something bad in society in this case a problem is not a good thing right so my company has few problems in this case when the noun is a bad thing and you use few the sentence sounds positive the feeling is positive like my company has few problems my company has very few problems it's great this sentence sounds happy it sounds good okay so this is the difference with few and a few okay good some of your examples are coming in good uh let's see there is uh oh salma there is a few apple in the fridge very close plural there are a few apples in the fridge don't forget your s at the end of your countable noun okay eduardo says why do you put apples in the fridge okay uh alright other examples there are a few books for reading here nice one uh rakesh okay uh magdalena says i bought few computers okay yeah so that's good if you want to express a negative situation or a negative condition i bought few computers okay danielle says there are few rich people in the world really really oh i don't i don't know how many are there okay all right let's go then let's go to the next part someone uh let's see some of you are writing some examples of this let's now let's compare this to a little and little so same thing right uh little and little same idea as a few and few the difference we use little and a little with uncountable nouns uncountable nouns right so before we talked about air water time money we need counter words for this yeah okay so let's compare these two sentences first we have a little time to finish the project we have a little time to finish the project and we have little time to finish the project we have little time to finish the project so again these two the only difference is this uh yeah we have a little time and we have little time again this sentence with uh sounds like a simple neutral fact we have a little time to finish the project it's okay don't worry we have a little time sounds okay just fact this sentence sounds negative we have little time to finish the project we have little time sounds like oh we need to rush or we need to hurry there's a lot to do we have little time to finish the project okay all right i'm looking for your other questions no okay so same idea as with few but again we have to use this with uncountable nouns here my noun is time this is an uncountable noun we have a little time to finish the project so i cannot use a few we have a few time no if you change this noun we have a few hours hours is okay hours is a countable noun a few so make sure you check your noun is it countable or uncountable here finally the same thing we saw in our last example sentence here with few is also true here this example sentence my city has little pollution my city has little pollution what's pollution pollution is like is bad air or bad water dirty air or dirty water so the city is not clean yeah so pollution means all that bad or dirty stuff yeah so my city has little pollution again if the noun after little in this case is a negative noun something bad the feeling of the sentence is positive so my city has little pollution this is a good thing so pollution not good but i want to express there's not very much of it my city has little pollution this sentence sounds positive okay all right good looks good okay i'm looking for your questions we still have a little time for a cup of coffee says jorge perfect that's a great example you could use that at the end of like a business meeting you could use that maybe after you have lunch with a friend you can say oh we still have a little time for a cup of coffee not we still have little time but that little uh the small uh there it makes a big difference in feeling yeah okay um ooh zachary i hope i said that right on facebook says there is little clean air in big cities very nice very nice okay good examples javier what's the difference between little and small ah good point in this yeah in this when we're talking about how much of something when we're talking about a quantity like this um we can use a small amount of time i suppose like in this sentence we have a small amount of time but we can't replace it directly we have a small time to finish the project is not doesn't work so we can't switch uh little and small in these example sentences if however you are talking about size like uh like a small car then it's fine there you can use both of them the same okay all right good time's going quick so let's go to the last point for today the final point for today is about enough and any how do we use enough and how do we use any okay let's take a look again let's compare a few points so uh enough this is one i see yeah okay i see some mistakes with this so let's talk about it uh all right oh some questions are coming uh naeli can these words be used formally and i'm not sure what you mean by unnaturally but formally yes you can use uh these words in formal situations uh you might hear some longer expressions used but yes you can okay um other points cindy sms one of our members hi says can i say a little bit yes you can say a little bit that sounds a little casual actually okay um okay let's go to the last point enough let's talk about enough what is the deal so again let's compare enough two sentences first we have enough time we have enough time and we don't have enough time we don't have enough time so what does enough express what what does it steal so when we use enough in a positive sentence like this in this case i have it with time an uncountable noun this means it matches the need in the situation we have enough time so enough time means the time i have matches my requirement matches my need so for example it takes me one hour to finish this task i have one hour to finish the task i can say i have enough time it matches my need on the other hand however we don't have enough time negative don't have enough time means this does not match my need so my task takes one hour i have 30 minutes i don't have enough time the time does not match my need okay so sometimes i see maybe like enough used in sort of interesting ways so please be careful of how you use enough enough is used to talk about matching a requirement it's also common to see enough in requests and questions too so here's a request in this case i used it with a countable noun you can do this you can use it with countable nouns uncountable nouns so for example please buy enough snacks for everyone at the party please buy enough snacks for everyone at the party what does this mean make sure to meet the requirement or the need so i say to someone else please buy enough snacks for everyone at the party that means please make sure you buy snacks you buy so many snacks that everyone can eat you are matching the needs of our situation okay all right good some examples are coming in uh that is enough water says bright moon good i have enough clothes to wear good okay miguel we don't have enough money good uh janteny i don't have enough meal maybe i don't have enough food in my fridge we would say usually uh i don't have enough time good nice examples everyone okay look looks good looks really really good okay oh john carlos says can we use sufficient yes uh sufficient is not used as much in everyday conversation uh sufficient is used in more like business polite or um like formal documents for example like we did not have sufficient time to prepare the report that sounds much more formal we don't use it so much in everyday conversation though yes okay good uh okay i don't see other questions let's go to the last point for today very quickly i want to review any i didn't talk about any at the beginning of today's lesson so let's cover it here any what uh any we use any in questions and we use any in negative sentences for example do we have any milk do we have any milk sometimes i see learners go do we have some milk make sure to use any when you're asking questions like this do we have any uh some not some and when you want to talk about having zero of something we don't have any snacks this sentence is okay too we don't have snacks this one sounds more like oh we have zero snacks oh no we don't have any snacks okay so make sure you use them in these two situations using questions using negative sentences i'm not going to talk about this point a lot today because there i have a video on the english class 101 youtube and maybe on facebook and our website i talked about any and some and quantifiers so many points maybe i'll put i'll put some links uh in the youtube description after this lesson so if you want to review uh some of today's points you can check those links uh so please have a look at the youtube description when this lesson ends okay good some of you are sending questions with any uh some people say do you have any questions for me do you have any idea what time you'll be there very nice example is there any food it says zupa very nice uh yoshida uh says i don't have any money good uh abby says do we have any money great your any questions are really good really good um eduardo good question can we change any for no uh so for example like in this sentence uh we don't have any snacks we cannot go do it directly you can't say we don't have no snacks some ways of speaking english use that yes uh but you might hear more commonly we have no snacks we have no snacks so no double negative there more common is we have no snacks yeah okay okay uh wow some good examples are coming in all right everybody is really good with any that's awesome that's awesome okay but i have to finish i don't have any more time left so i have to say goodbye to you if you would like to take a picture of today's lesson boards here you go that is what we talked about today countable and uncountable nouns a few few a little little enough and any and yeah after this lesson i will add some links to the youtube description so you can check and review okay yeah if you missed any of this check the lesson recording it was super fun okay i'll be back next week of course next week's lesson here's the information next week uh april 21st 10 p.m eastern standard time this is new york city time if you don't know your local time please google it or you can set a notification on facebook or on youtube or if you follow me on instagram i always post a link in my stories with a reminder for the topic so you can follow me there next week i'm going to talk about how to use emphasis words so i hinted at it today uh like so too very extremely way and many more so i want to cover of course how we use these words like formality uh is it formal or casual and some common mistakes like i see a lot of mistakes with two for example so please join me again next week to talk about how to use emphasis words we'll have a good time and of course don't forget to check out the link below the video on youtube or above the video on facebook to get 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