Welcome to the Purdue OWL
This page is brought to you by the OWL at Purdue University. When printing this page, you must include the entire legal notice.
Copyright ©1995-2018 by The Writing Lab & The OWL at Purdue and Purdue University. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, reproduced, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed without permission. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our terms and conditions of fair use.
Note for Purdue Students: Schedule a consultation at the on-campus writing lab to get more in-depth writing help from one of our tutors.
Answer : Quantity Terms with Count and Noncount Nouns
1. Quite a few students have trouble with economics.
2. It requires quite a little or quite a bit of* reading.
3. Few advisors spend as much time with their students.
4. He has little hope of passing his exams.
5. George's advisor spends quite a little or quite a bit of time with him.
6. He knows few people in the class.
7. Bill spends little money on clothes.
8. She spends quite a little or quite a bit of money on CDs.
9. He has few suits.
10. He understands little of the reading.
* Notice that in quite a little the of is deleted, but in quite a bit of the of remains in the phrase.
Back to Questions- Navigation
- OWL Exercises
- Grammar Exercises
- Grammar Exercises Introduction
- Adjective or Adverb?
- Appositives
- Articles
- Count and Noncount Nouns
- Count and Noncount Nouns Index
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 1
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 1 Answers
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 2
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 2 Answers
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 3 Answers
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 4
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 4 Answers
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 5
- Count and Noncount Nouns Exercise 5 Answers
- Quantity Terms Exercise
- Quantity Terms Exercise Answers
- Prepositions
- Tense Consistency
- Punctuation Exercises
- Punctuation Exercises Introduction
- Basic Punctuation
- Apostrophes
- Quotation Marks
- Commas
- Commas Index
- Comma Exercise 1
- Comma Exercise 1 Answers
- Comma Exercise 2
- Comma Exercise 2 Answers
- Comma Exercise 3
- Comma Exercise 3 Answers
- Comma Exercise 4
- Comma Exercise 4 Answers
- Comma Exercise 5
- Comma Exercise 5 Answers
- After Introductions Exercise 1
- After Introductions Exercise 1 Answers
- After Introductions Exercise 2
- After Introductions Exercise 2 Answers
- After Introductions Exercise 3
- After Introductions Exercise 3 Answers
- Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound Sentences
- Commas vs. Semicolons - Compound Sentences Answers
- Nonessential Elements Exercise 1
- Nonessential Elements Exercise 1 Answers
- Nonessential Elements Exercise 2
- Nonessential Elements Exercise 2 Answers
- Nonessential Elements Exercise 3
- Nonessential Elements Exercise 3 Answers
- Spelling Exercises
- Spelling Exercises Introduction
- -ible vs. -able
- Accept/Except
- Affect/Effect
- i/e Rules
- i/e Rules Index
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 1
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 1 Answers
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 2
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 2 Answers
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 3
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 3 Answers
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 4
- EI/IE Spelling Rules Exercise 4 Answers
- Sentence Structure
- Sentence Structure Introduction
- Sentence Clauses
- Sentence Fragments
- Sentence Structure
- Subject-Verb Agreement
- Sentence Style
- Writing Numbers
- ESL Exercises
- ESL Exercises Introduction
- Paraphrase and Summary Exercises
- Nominalizations and Subject Position