?一、只能修飾可數(shù)名詞的詞語有:
many, many a(n), a good / great many, a (great / large) number of, scores of, dozens of等。
例如:
Scores of people went there in the first few days after its opening.
開張后的頭幾天,很多人去了那兒。
二、只能修飾不可數(shù)名詞的詞語有:
much, a great deal of, a great / large amount of等。
例如:
Is there much water in the bucket?
桶里有很多水嗎?
三、既能修飾可數(shù)名詞又能修飾不可數(shù)名詞的詞語有:
a lot of, lots of, plenty of (以上三個詞語后謂語動詞的數(shù)依of 后的名詞的單復(fù)數(shù)而定),a great / large quantity of (其后謂語用單數(shù)),quantities of (其后謂語用復(fù)數(shù))。
例如:
There is still lots of snow in the garden.
花園里還有許多雪。
在所有這些表示“很多”的詞語中many, much 是最常用的詞,它們既可以用于肯定句,也可以用于疑問句和否定句。
例如:
Are there many people in the street?
街上有很多人嗎?
其它的詞語都用于肯定句,日常會話中常用lots of, a lot of 或plenty of; 正式文體中常用 a great many, a (large) number of, a great deal of, scores of 或 dozens of 等。但若肯定句中有too, so, as, very或how 等詞修飾時,則必須使用 many, much。例如:
The number of the people who lost their homes reached as many as 250,000.
無家可歸的人數(shù)多達250,000人。
