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He eats _______ sweets every day. a little any We use the quantifiers ‘much’, ‘many’, ‘(a) little’, ‘any’ to talk about quantities, amounts and degree.We can use them with a noun (as a determiner) or without a noun (as a pronoun). We use ‘much’ that means ‘a large amount or to a large degree’ and ‘a little’ that means ‘not much, but some’ (‘small amount’)with singular uncountable nouns (I don’t earn much money.; I like him very much.; a little bread, a little money, a little marmalade, a little time. We use ‘many’ that means ‘a large number of’ with plural nouns (I don’t have many dresses.).We use the quantifier ‘any’ in questions and negatives to mean ‘some’: Did you buy any butter?; We haven’t got any eggs.We use ‘any’ to mean ‘it does not matter which or what’ to describe something which is not limited:You can choose any colours you want.; She refused to answer any questions. We use this meaning of ‘any’ with all types of nouns and usually in affirmative sentences.In the test sentence He eats _______ sweets every day. we need to choose a quantifier for the countable noun ‘sweets’. Therefore, from the test variants we can choose ANSWER 1 (many) andANSWER 4 (any). The variant ‘He eats any sweets every day.’ means that he has a wide range of sweets to eat every day: chocolate, boiled, candies, fizzy, mallows etc. Maybe he is a taster.

Accepted Answer

many much a

Question	He eats _______ sweets every day.
A	many
B	a little
C	much
D	any
Answer	a
Remark	We use the quantifiers ‘much’, ‘many’, ‘(a) little’, ‘any’ to talk about quantities, amounts and degree.We can use them with a noun (as a determiner) or without a noun (as a pronoun). We use ‘much’ that means ‘a large amount or to a large degree’ and ‘a little’ that means ‘not much, but some’ (‘small amount’)with singular uncountable nouns (I don’t earn much money.; I like him very much.; a little bread, a little money, a little marmalade, a little time. We use ‘many’ that means ‘a large number of’ with plural nouns (I don’t have many dresses.).We use the quantifier ‘any’ in questions and negatives to mean ‘some’: Did you buy any butter?; We haven’t got any eggs.We use ‘any’ to mean ‘it does not matter which or what’ to describe something which is not limited:You can choose any colours you want.; She refused to answer any questions. We use this meaning of ‘any’ with all types of nouns and usually in affirmative sentences.In the test sentence He eats _______ sweets every day. we need to choose a quantifier for the countable noun ‘sweets’. Therefore, from the test variants we can choose ANSWER 1 (many) andANSWER 4 (any). The variant ‘He eats any sweets every day.’ means that he has a wide range of sweets to eat every day: chocolate, boiled, candies, fizzy, mallows etc. Maybe he is a taster.

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