修饰不可数和可数名词

知识讲解什么可以修饰可数名词什么可以修饰不可数名词

一、some和any的用法：

（1）两者修饰可数复数名词和不可数名词，表一些；有些。

〔2）一般的用法：some用于肯定句；any用于疑问句，否定句或条件句。

I am looking for some matches.

Do you have any matches? I do not have any matches.

（3）特殊的用法：

(A) 在期望对方肯定的回答时，问句也用some。

Will you lend me some money? (=Please lend me some money.)

(B) any表任何或任何一个时，也可用于肯定句。

Come any day you like.

二、many和much的用法：

（1）many修饰复数可数名词，表许多；much修饰不可数名词，表量或程度。He has many friends, but few true ones.

There hasn't been much good weather recently.

（2）many a:

many a和many同义，但语气比较强，并且要与单数名词及单数形动词连用。Many a prisoner has been set free. (=Many prisoners have been set free.)

三. (a) few和(a) little的用法：

(1) (a) few用在复数可数名词之前，(a) little用在不可数名词之前。

He took a few biscuits. (=several) He took few biscuits(=not many)

He took a little butter. (=some) He took little butter. (=not much)

(2) a few相当于some, several, 含肯定的意味。

He has a few (=some or several) friends.

(4) a little和little之间的差别，就和a few和few的差别一样，只是(a) little须修饰不可数名词，表量或程度。

He grows worse; there is little hope of his recovery.

He is not much better, but there is a little hope.

5. 其他的数量形容词：

(1) plenty of, a lot of, lots of均表许多，修饰复数可数名词或不可数名词。

The room contained plenty of (or a lot of or lots of) students.（复数名词）

The room contained plenty of (or a lot of or lots of) furniture.（不可数名词）

(2) a great (or a good) deal of, a large (or a small) quantity of, a large (or a small) amount of, 均表（量），修饰不可数名词。

The room contained a great deal of furniture. （不可数名词）

The room contained a good deal of furniture. （不可数名词）

The room contained a large quantity of furniture. （不可数名词）

The room contained a large amount of furniture. （不可数名词）

The room contained a small quantity of furniture. （不可数名词）

The room contained a small amount of furniture. （不可数名词）

(3) a number of “许多；一些”；a great (large, good) number of “许多”，修饰复数可数名词，并且要与复数动词连用。

A number of books are missing from the library.

The room contained a great (or large or good) number of students. （复数可数名词）the number of ＋复数名词，其后谓语动词用单数

The number of books from the library is large.

(4) enough的用法：

(A) 可接复数可数名词和不可数名词。

There are enough chairs. （可数）

There is enough furniture. （不可数）

(B) 可放在年修饰名词的前后。

We don't have enough time. =We don't have time enough.

(5) hundreds of, dozens of, thousands of, scores of ＋复数可数名词

冠词或数词(one, two...) ＋(hundred, dozen, thousand, score) 复数可数名词(6) the rest of “其余的”，可接复数可数名词及不可数名词，作主词时，接可数名词则用复数动词，接不可数名词则用单数动词。

The rest of the students are absent. （复数可数名词）

The rest of the water was thrown away. 不可数名词）