Quantifiers in English - Much, Many, Little and Few

Linguagens, Códigos e suas
Tecnologias – Inglês
Ensino Médio, 2 ° Ano
Quantifiers:
much x many / little x few
INGLÊS, 2º Ano do Ensino Médio
Much x Many; Little x Few
ÍNDICE
GRAMMAR NOTES
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 1: MUCH E MANY
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 2: LITTLE/ A LITTLE E FEW/ A FEW
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 3: OS SINÔNIMOS DE MUCH E MANY
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 4: A INTENSIFICAÇÃO DOS QUANTIFICADORES
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 5: CASOS ESPECIAIS COM MANY
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 6: PROBLEMAS DE CONCORDÂNCIA VERBAL
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 7: A FUNÇÃO PRONOMINAL DOS QUANTIFICADORES
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 8: USO DE HOW MANY X HOW MUCH

GRAMMAR IN USE:
USE: PRACTICE 1; PRACTICE 2; PRACTICE 3; PRACTICE 4; PRACTICE 5; PRACTICE 6; PRACTICE 7;
PRACTICE 8

GRAMMAR IN ACTION:
ACTION:
SONG: BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND
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RESPOSTAS
BIBLIOGRAFIA
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 1 - MUCH E MANY
TRADUÇÃO APLICAÇÃO EXEMPLOS
MUCH She drinks much tea.

(Ela bebe muito chá)
antes de substantivos incontáveis,
muito, muita
portanto, singulares. I don't have much time.
(Não tenho muito tempo)
They have many cars.

(Eles têm muitos carros)
antes de substantivos contáveis,
MANY muitos, muitas
no plural. I’ve bought many books.
(Comprei muitos livros)
OBSERVAÇÃO: Much é principalmente usado em frases negativas e interrogativas.

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 2 - LITTLE / A LITTLE e FEW / A FEW
TRADUÇÃO APLICAÇÃO EXEMPLOS
She drinks little tea.

(Ela toma pouco chá)
LITTLE
antes de substantivos incontáveis,
pouco, pouca
portanto, singulares. I have little time.
(Tenho pouco tempo)
They have few cars.

(Eles têm poucos carros)
antes de substantivos contáveis,
FEW poucos, poucas
no plural. I’ve bought few books.
(Comprei poucos livros)
OBSERVAÇÕES:
1. a little (um pouco) - mesma aplicação de little.
She drinks a little tea.
2. a few (uns poucos, umas poucas) - mesma aplicação de few.

They have a few cars.
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 3 - OS SINÓNIMOS DE MUCH E MANY
• significam "muito(a), muitos(as), uma porção de, uma grande quantidade de" etc.
Much tea = a lot of tea

lots of plenty of tea
a lot of a great (good) deal of tea
plenty of
a good deal of Many books = lots of books
a great deal of a lot of books
plenty of books
a great (good) deal of books
1. A expressão a lot (sem of) não deve ser usada antes de substantivos.
John studies a lot. (John estuda muito)

A lot was done by her. (Muito foi feito por ela)
OBSERVAÇÕES
2. A expressão lots of (embora característica de plural) pode ser também usada
antes de incontáveis, no singular (bastante informal).
There are lots of houses on this street. (Há muitas casas nesta rua)
She has lots of money with her. (Ela tem muito dinheiro com ela)
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 4 - A INTENSIFICAÇÃO DOS QUANTIFICADORES
Pode-se ampliar, enfatizar ou restringir o sentido dos quantificadores se os precedermos de VERY, TOO, SO, EXTREMELY,
COMPARATIVELY
QUANTIFICADORES
ADVÉRBIO
MUCH MANY FEW LITTLE
bastante, muitos, muito muito

VERY
muito muitas poucos(as) pouco(a)
demais demais poucos(as) pouco(a)

TOO
(sing.) (plural) demais demais
SO tanto(a) tantos(as) tão poucos(as) tão pouco(a)
extremamente extremamente extremamente extremamente

EXTREMELY
muito(a) muitos(as) poucos(as) pouco(a)
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 5 - CASOS ESPECIAIS COM MANY
Many tem concordância verbal de plural:

Many students are outside the classroom. (Muitos estudantes estão fora da sala de aula)
Pode-se porém, substituir a forma MANY + PLURAL por MANY A + SINGULAR, com concordância verbal singular.
Many a student is outside the classroom. (Muitos estudantes estão fora da sala de aula)
Many pode ser precedido de a good ou a great, por ênfase:

She has a great many hens.
a good
(Ela tem muitas, muitas galinhas)
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 6 - PROBLEMAS DE CONCORDÂNCIA VERBAL
Lots of e a lot of têm concordância verbal dependente do elemento que as seguir:
There is lots of money here.

There are a lot of boys there.
There is a lot of love to share.
There are lots of buses out of order.
Porém, se a forma of não aparecer, tanto lots of quanto a lot of são consideradas singulares:
There is a lot here. (Há muito aqui.)

There is lots here. (Há muitos aqui.)
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 7 - A FUNÇÃO PRONOMINAL DOS QUANTIFICADORES
Quando houver, numa mesma frase, mais de uma referência a um mesmo substantivo,
não há a necessidade de se repetir tal substantivo a cada referência: usa-se, apenas, o quantificador:
She has many books, but I’ve got few.

(Ela tem muitos livros, mas eu tenho poucos)
He doesn’t spend much petrol: he spends little.

(Ele não gasta muita gasolina: gasta pouca)
COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 8 – USO DE HOW MANY X HOW MUCH
How many traduz-se por quantos, quantas.

HOW MANY OCEANS ARE THERE IN THE EARTH?
Quantos oceanos há na Terra?
HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVE IN YOUR CITY?
Quantas pessoas vivem em sua cidade?
I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES I’VE ALREADY TOLD YOU THAT !
Não sei quantas vezes já lhe disse isso !
How much traduz-se por quanto, quanta.

HOW MUCH SUGAR DO YOU WANT IN YOUR COFFEE?
Quanto açúcar você quer no seu café?
HOW MUCH GASOLINE DOES YOUR CAR CONSUME TO TRAVEL 50 KILOMETERS?
Quanta gasolina seu carro consome para rodar/viajar 50 quilômetros?
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH A GOOD COMPUTER COSTS?
Você sabe quanto custa um bom computador?
Antes de uncountable nouns, usa-se how much:
HOW MUCH ADVICE I HAVE GIVEN YOU !

Quantos conselhos eu lhe dei !
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PRACTICE 1
Preencha com many ou much:
1. She's got __________ problems to solve.
2. I don't have ___________ money to spend.
3. It will take us ____________ hours to get there.

PRACTICE 2
Preencha com (a) few ou (a) little.
1. She's got ______________ problems to solve.
2. I have ______________ money to spend.
3. It will take us ______________ hours to get there.

PRACTICE 3
Substitua as expressões grifadas por many ou much:
1. She's got a lot of problems to solve.
2. I don't have a great deal of money to spend.
3. It will take us lots of hours to get there.

PRACTICE 4
Enfatize as formas em destaque:
1. She's got many problems to solve.
2. I don't have much of money to spend.
3. It will take us few hours to get there.

PRACTICE 5
Substitua as formas em destaque:
1. She's got many a problem to solve.
2. It will take us many an hour to get there.
3. Many a boy entered the empty room.

PRACTICE 6
Coloque C para o certo e E para o errado:
1. There was a lot of girls in the park. ( )
2. Lots of men spend their time here. ( )
3. There are a lot of students outside. ( )

PRACTICE 7
Complete com o solicitado entre parênteses:
1. I’ve got a few coins but she's got ________________.

(muitas)
2. Peter spoke many times, but I spoke ________________.

(poucas)
3. Henry has little money, but Allan has ________________.

(muito)
Preencha com (A) para: many, lots of, a great deal of
Preencha com (B) para: much, a lot of, a great deal of
1. This factory produces ___________ different kinds of products.
2. You haven't had _____________ food to eat.
3. It is not good to eat ____________ cakes and drink __________ beer.
4. Do you have ____________ rainy days here in Spring? No, we do not have ____________ rain here.
5. ____________ Englishmen like to spend their spare time working in their gardens.
6. ____________ time would be saved if you planned your work properly.
7. Do you meet ____________ nice people when you go to work?
8. ____________ faith, my son!
9. Marianne bought ____________ pairs of shoes and ____________ powder for her skin.
10. ____________ times a week you have English lessons, don't you?
Preencha com (A) para: few, a few Preencha com (D) para: less
Preencha com (B) para: fewer Preencha com (E) para: little
Preencha com (C) para: little, a little
1. There were ____________ telephone calls for her than for you.
2. Having had ____________ opportunities to practice, I did not play the piece as well as I might have done.
3. Do you smoke at all? Yes, but very ____________.
4. There is only ____________ coal in the cellar because the coalman has not come yet.
5. She has ____________ talent than we suppose.
6. In the average, ____________ people get good salaries in Brazil.
7. The ____________ money that he has will hardly keep him in food.
8. Do you think prisoners have ____________ fun in prisons?
9. Today is ____________ colder than it was yesterday.
10. She takes ____________ trouble to please us.

PRACTICE 8
Que expressão completaria corretamente as frases abaixo: how many ou how much ?
1. ____________ does a yard measure ?
2. We don’t know ____________ he knows about this subject.
3. ____________ classes have you lost this year ?
4. ____________ are the donuts ?
5. Can you tell me ____________ you weigh ?

TRABALHO INTERDISCIPLINAR
SUGESTÕES
SUGESTÕES PARA UM TRABALHO INTERDISCIPLINAR
História: fazer a reconstituição de uma tragédia norte-americana. Em 22/11/1963, o

presidente dos Estados Unidos John F. Kennedy foi morto com um tiro na cabeça.
Ele estava fazendo uma visita à cidade Texana de Dallas, com o objetivo de
consolidar a unidade do Partido Democrata.
Língua portuguesa: orientar os educandos para a produção de um texto dissertativo

com o tema. “Se uma sociedade livre não pode ajudar a seus muitos pobres,
também não poderá salvar a seus poucos ricos.” (John F. Kennedy)
Filosofia: levar os educandos a fazer uma reflexão da canção Blowin’ in the wind
explicando o seu significado.
Artes: organizar uma exposição sobre beleza, apresentando o seu conceito e sua
relação com as raízes culturais de cada povo. Abordar também o concurso Miss
Universo quando Ieda Maria Vargas, a primeira Miss Brasil, a ser coroada Miss
Universo em 20 de julho de 1963.
NO SLIDE SEGUINTE ,OUÇA A MÚSICA BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

E COMPLETE OS ESPAÇOS VAZIOS COM OS QUANTIFIERS.
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Blowin’ in the wind (Bob Dylan)

______ roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?
______ seas must a white dove sail
Before she can sleep in the sand?
Yes and ______ times must cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
http://www.youtube.com/
The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind
The answer is blowin' in the wind watch?v=XofJwQts68o
Yes and ______ years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the seas (sea)
Yes and ______ years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes and ______ times can a man turn his head
Pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yeah and ______ times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?
Yes and ______ ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Clique no link acima e ouça a
Yes and ______ deaths will it take till he knows música no You Tube.
That too ______ people have died

The answer is blowin' in the wind?
NOS SLIDES SEGUINTES, CONSTAM AS RESPOSTAS REFERENTES AOS

EXERCÍCIOS PROPOSTOS ANTERIORMENTE.
ANSWERS
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ANSWERS
ANSWERS
ANSWERS
ANSWERS
PRACTICE 1
Preencha com many ou much:
2. I don't have much money to spend.
3. It will take us many hours to get there.

PRACTICE 2
Preencha com (a) few ou (a) little.
1. She's got (a) few problems to solve.
2. I have (a) little money to spend.
3. It will take us (a) few hours to get there.

PRACTICE 3
Substitua as expressões grifadas por many ou much:
1. She's got a lot of problems to solve.

She's got many problems to solve.
2. I don't have a great deal of money to spend.

I don't have much of money to spend.
3. It will take us lots of hours to get there.

It will take us many hours to get there.
PRACTICE 4
Enfatize as formas em destaque:

too / so / very / extremely many
2. I don't have much of money to spend.

too / so / very / extremely much
3. It will take us few hours to get there.

too / so / very / extremely few
PRACTICE 5
Substitua as formas em destaque:
1. She's got many a problem to solve.

She's got many problems to solve.
2. It will take us many an hour to get there.

It will take us many hours to get there.
3. Many a boy entered the empty room.

Many boys entered the empty room.
PRACTICE 6
Coloque C para o certo e E para o errado:
1. There was a lot of girls in the park. ( E )
2. Lots of men spend their time here. ( C )
3. There are a lot of students outside. ( C )

PRACTICE 7
Complete com o solicitado entre parênteses:
1. I’ve got a few coins but she's got many.

(muitas)
2. Peter spoke many times, but I spoke few.

(poucas)
3. Henry has little money, but Allan has much.

(muito)
Preencha com (A) para: many, lots of, a great deal of
Preencha com (B) para: much, a lot of, a great deal of
1. This factory produces (A) different kinds of products.
2. You haven't had (B) food to eat.
3. It is not good to eat (A) cakes and drink (B) beer.
4. Do you have (A) rainy days here in Spring? No, we do not have (B) rain here.
5. (A) Englishmen like to spend their spare time working in their gardens.
6. (B) time would be saved if you planned your work properly.
7. Do you meet (A) nice people when you go to work?
8. (B) faith, my son!
9. Marianne bought (A) pairs of shoes and (B) powder for her skin.
10. (A) times a week you have English lessons, don't you?
Preencha com (A) para: few, a few Preencha com (D) para: less
Preencha com (B) para: fewer Preencha com (E) para: little
Preencha com (C) para: little, a little
1. There were (B) telephone calls for her than for you.
2. Having had (A) opportunities to practice, I did not play the piece as well as I might have done.
3. Do you smoke at all? Yes, but very (E).
4. There is only (C) (E) coal in the cellar because the coalman has not come yet.
5. She has (D) talent than we suppose.
6. In the average, (A) people get good salaries in Brazil.
7. The (E) money that he has will hardly keep him in food.
8. Do you think prisoners have (E) (C) fun in prisons?
9. Today is (D) colder than it was yesterday.
10. She takes (C) (E) trouble to please us.

PRACTICE 8
Que expressão completaria corretamente as frases abaixo: how many ou how much ?
1. How much does a yard measure ?
2. We don’t know how much he knows about this subject.
3. How many classes have you lost this year ?
4. How much are the donuts ?
5. Can you tell me how much you weigh ?

NO SLIDE SEGUINTE, OUÇA A MÚSICA BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND

E CONFIRA AS SUAS RESPOSTAS.
Imagem:LuckyLouie/U.S. Air Force public domain

Blowin’ in the wind (Bob Dylan)

How many roads must a man walk down
Before you can call him a man?
How many seas must a white dove sail
Before she can sleep in the sand?
Yes and how many times must cannonballs fly
Before they're forever banned?
http://www.youtube.com/
The answer is blowin' in the wind watch?v=XofJwQts68o
Yes and how many years can a mountain exist
Before it's washed to the seas (sea)
Yes and how many years can some people exist
Before they're allowed to be free?
Yes and how many times can a man turn his head
Pretend that he just doesn't see?

The answer is blowin' in the wind
Yeah and how many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky?
Yes and how many ears must one man have
Before he can hear people cry?
Clique no link acima e ouça a
Yes and how many deaths will it take till he knows música no You Tube.
That too many people have died

The answer is blowin' in the wind?
BIBLIOGRAFIA
LIBERATO, Wilson. Inglês Doorway: volume único: Ensino Médio.São Paulo: FTD,
2004 .
Gramáticas
Celce-Murcia, Marianne & Larsen-Freeman, Diane. The Grammar Book; an ESL/EFL

teacher’s course. Heinle & Heinle, 1999.
Collins Cobuild English Grammar. London, Collins Publishers / University of

Birmingham, 1991.
Halliday, M. Functional Grammar. London, 1994.
Quirk, R. et alii. A Grammar of contemporany English. London, Longman, 1979.
Hollaender, Arnon, Vidal Varela Filho – What about learning – São Paulo:Saraiva,
1979.
Pedro Nunes Filho – College English, Vestibular Unificado – 2º grau, 1977.

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COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 1: MUCH E MANY

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 2: LITTLE/ A LITTLE E FEW/ A FEW

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 3: OS SINÔNIMOS DE MUCH E MANY

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 4: A INTENSIFICAÇÃO DOS QUANTIFICADORES

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 5: CASOS ESPECIAIS COM MANY

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 6: PROBLEMAS DE CONCORDÂNCIA VERBAL

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 7: A FUNÇÃO PRONOMINAL DOS QUANTIFICADORES

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 8: USO DE HOW MANY X HOW MUCH

SUGESTÕES PARA UM TRABALHO INTERDISCIPLINAR

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 1 - MUCH E MANY

TRADUÇÃO APLICAÇÃO EXEMPLOS

MUCH She drinks much tea.

They have many cars.

OBSERVAÇÃO: Much é principalmente usado em frases negativas e interrogativas.

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 2 - LITTLE / A LITTLE e FEW / A FEW

TRADUÇÃO APLICAÇÃO EXEMPLOS

She drinks little tea.

They have few cars.

2. a few (uns poucos, umas poucas) - mesma aplicação de few.

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 3 - OS SINÓNIMOS DE MUCH E MANY

Much tea = a lot of tea

John studies a lot. (John estuda muito)

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 4 - A INTENSIFICAÇÃO DOS QUANTIFICADORES

MUCH MANY FEW LITTLE

bastante, muitos, muito muito

demais demais poucos(as) pouco(a)

SO tanto(a) tantos(as) tão poucos(as) tão pouco(a)

extremamente extremamente extremamente extremamente

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 5 - CASOS ESPECIAIS COM MANY

Many tem concordância verbal de plural:

Many pode ser precedido de a good ou a great, por ênfase:

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 6 - PROBLEMAS DE CONCORDÂNCIA VERBAL

Lots of e a lot of têm concordância verbal dependente do elemento que as seguir:

There is lots of money here.

There is a lot here. (Há muito aqui.)

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 7 - A FUNÇÃO PRONOMINAL DOS QUANTIFICADORES

She has many books, but I’ve got few.

He doesn’t spend much petrol: he spends little.

COMPONENTE TEÓRICO 8 – USO DE HOW MANY X HOW MUCH

How many traduz-se por quantos, quantas.

How much traduz-se por quanto, quanta.

Antes de uncountable nouns, usa-se how much:

HOW MUCH ADVICE I HAVE GIVEN YOU !

Preencha com many ou much:

1. She's got __________ problems to solve.

2. I don't have ___________ money to spend.

3. It will take us ____________ hours to get there.

Preencha com (a) few ou (a) little.

1. She's got ______________ problems to solve.

2. I have ______________ money to spend.

3. It will take us ______________ hours to get there.

Substitua as expressões grifadas por many ou much:

1. She's got a lot of problems to solve.

2. I don't have a great deal of money to spend.

3. It will take us lots of hours to get there.

Enfatize as formas em destaque:

1. She's got many problems to solve.

2. I don't have much of money to spend.

3. It will take us few hours to get there.

Substitua as formas em destaque:

1. She's got many a problem to solve.

2. It will take us many an hour to get there.

3. It is not good to eat __ cakes and drink beer.