Quantifiers and Qualifiers

By Rumondang Miranda Marsaulina

 What are quantifiers?
Quantifiers show how many or how much of
something we are talking about.

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 Degree of quantifiers
1. No
2. Hardly any
3. Very few/Very little
4. A few/ A little
5. Enough
6. Not many/not much
7. Many/Much/Plenty of/A lot of/Lots of
8. Too many/too much

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 General or Specific
‘Of’ + quantifiers

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 When to use quantifiers
without “of”

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 More and less after quantifiers: ‘some more’, ‘a little less’

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Uses of ‘some’, ‘any’, ‘no’
and ‘none’

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 Four basic uses of ‘some’
and ‘any’

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 ‘Not...any’, ‘no’, and
‘none’

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Other uses of ‘ some’ and ‘any’

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Basic uses of’much’, ‘many’ and
‘a lot of’

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 ‘Few’, ‘A few’, ‘Little’, ‘A little’

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‘Both’/’both the’ and ‘All’/all the’

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 None and Neither

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 ‘Either’/’Neither’ +
singular nouns

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‘Another’,’other’, ‘others’, ‘others’,(the)
other(s),’the others’

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 ‘Each’ and ‘Every”

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Ex:
Neither of us is happy. None of my friends has/have
been invited.

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 What are qualifiers?
Words or phrases that precede
an adjective or adverb, increasing or decreasing the
quality signified by the word it modifies.

The most common qualifiers in English:

very, quite, rather, somewhat, more, most, less, least,
too, so, just, enough, indeed, still, almost, fairly, really,
pretty, even, kind of, sort of

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 Quantifiers vs Qualifiers
Quantifiers disguise themselves as words that tell how much
or how many while qualifiers are hidden as adjectives and
adverbs.
Consider the following sentences:
• Kenyon applied to three good colleges.
Explanation: three is the quantifier and good is the
qualifier.
• Melrose Place has a great deal of trendy shops and
restaurants.
Explanation: a great deal of indicates the amount of
shops and restaurants, while trendy advises
the reader the types of shops and
restaurants that are being described.

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 However, qualifiers are not Adverbs of
Degree

The reasons are:

1. They do not modify verbs.
2. With one or two exceptions, like really and fairly,
qualifiers do not have adverb derivational suffixes.
3. They cannot be made comparative or superlative .
4. They do not intensify.

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 Thank you.

Any questions?

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