QUANTIFIERS EXERCISE

Instructions: Read the questions and choose the best answer!

01.A number of _______ were killed last night in the park.

a. goose

b. geese

c. mouse

d. mices

02. The building collapsed because the developer put ________ bad quality cement when they built it.

a. a number of large

b. a large number of

c. a large amount of

d. an amount of large

03. The number of people _______ gathering to protest  the new policy.

a. is

b. are

c. were

d. have been

04.There were a lot of people registered for the seminar, but only _____ showed up at the D day.

a. few

b. a few

c. a little

d. little

05.The tea has already had _______ sugar.

a. little

b. a little

c. few

d. a few

06._________ false information from the media had brought the people into a misinterpretation.

a. few

b. a little

c. the number of

d. little

07._______ of the protesters were taken to the police station for interrogation.

a. Many

b. An amount

c. The number

d. Some

08.Some ______ were positively indicated to suffer the anthrax disease. 

a. ox

b. oxes

c. oxen

d. oxens

09.______ arsenic substance is adequate to kill a man.

a. a little

b. little

c. a few

d. few

10._________ protesters are waiting for the result of the meeting.

a. The great number of

b. A great number of

c. A number of great

d. Great a number of

Instruction: Read the following sentences and choose the incorrect underlined part of the sentences.

11.A lot of Salmon fishes are found in most sub tropical rivers as the main

     prey of grizzly bears in summer and spring seasons.

 

12.Plenty of man are gathering in front of the parliament building to

     protest the new petroleum import that the government plans to do.

13.So much devices in the company that are unusable as the result of the

     mis-communication between the supply department and the executive   

     manager.

14. Last night demonstration derived a great number of protesters and

      labors that was demanding the changes on the new workers policies.

15.Either Carbon Monoxide or Carbon Dioxide are blamed to be the main

     cause of the global warming that is getting worse in the past decade.