Huddleston, Rodney D., and Geoffrey K."A Large Amount of." Garner's Modern American Usage. "Collocations of Quantifying Collectives." "Determiners." Longman Grammar Of Spoken And Written English. Biber, Douglas, and Stig Johansson, et al."Subject-Verb Agreement Using Quantity Expressions." Understanding and Using English Grammar. Related pages: Much / Many | Little / Few | Most /Most of the | More / -er…than | Most/-est | Pop-Q "A couple" | Pop-Q "One of the few" | Pop-Q "Small amount".
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See Works Cited in Grammar section, below, for full bibliographical information. "Subject-Verb Agreement Using Quantity Expressions" Azar 6-3 "Pronouns and Determiners." (quantifying nouns) Murphy Units 87–91 "Predeterminer Modifiers" Huddleston 5 §12 "Partitive– some of the" "non-partitive – some" Huddleston 5 §9.1 "Non-count quantificational nouns" Huddleston 5 §3.3 "Non-count quantificational nouns selecting a singular oblique" Huddleston §3.3 "Collocations of Quantifying Collectives." Biber 4.3.4.1 " lot, lots, plenty, a great deal, a large amount, a large number, the majority" Swan 333 ¹ A lot is an expression meaning "several".Ī lot is a quantifier for a set of items, a group of things or people (e.g., a lot of dyed yarn, a strange lot of friends), land (e.g., a parking lot, a vacant lot, a film lot), things to be sold (e.g., a lot of furnitiure in an auction) a choice, an item drawn out of a hat or bowl to determine a winner or loser (lottery). Scores, tens, hundreds, thousands, millions Plenty, lots, bags heaps, loads, oodles, stacks One Another | Indefinite Pronouns – Quantity Phrase Agreement. Everyone (indefinite pronoun) refers to everybody (all in general). Plural agreement commonly occurs.Įvery one refers to an animate or an inanimate item. in informal usage, none agrees with the noun of the phrase ("closest noun"). ³ none – in formal usage, none agrees with the quantifier (singular) None of the books is here. ² one – can be a determiner (one computer/a computer) or an ordinal number (one, two, three). ¹ the computers – "the" specifies a subset, a particular group of computers. (a large amount, a small amount, a smidgen of, a bit of, etc.) ¹ Also see diagrams: Two Analyses of Most in Grammar Notes section below.Į.g., a bag, a pound, a combination, a set Mod – Modifier – Head – Head (primary element in a phrase) Quant – QuantifierĪgreement: sng – singular pl – plural CN count noun (e.g., job, computer) NCN – noncount noun (e.g., work, equipment) Verb agrees with head noun of noun phraseĬategories: N – noun NP – noun phrase Det – Determiner Predeterminers V – verb VP – verb phrase Adv – adverb PP – prepositional phrase Verb agrees with singular quantity phrase. The head noun of the phrase determines the verbal agreement.Įvery one of the techs knows the solution. The quantifier or quantity expression modifies a noun or noun phrase. Most is included in a group of quantifiers that functions differently from the others. Both is plural in agreement with the verb. phrase) Each is singular in agreement with the verb.īoth is included in a group of quantifiers that can function as a determiner, a quantity noun, or the head of a quantity phrase. Each is included in a group of quantifiers that can function as a determiner to a noun (a modifier), a noun (quantifier), or the head of a quantity phrase (noun + prep.
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