📄️ Introduction
Determiners in this group are mainly quantifiers: they show how much of a class or category we are talking about (all, most, some, none, …).
📄️ *all*: introduction
Three or more items
📄️ *all (of)* with noun phrases and pronouns
all and all of
📄️ All with the verb: *We can all swim.*
When all refers to the subject of a clause, it can go with the verb, in ‘mid-position’ (for details of word order, (see here).
📄️ *all*, *everybody/everyone* and *everything*
all and everybody/everyone
📄️ *all* and *whole*
Pronunciation
📄️ *every (one)*
every + singular
📄️ *every* and *all*
Every and all can both be used to talk about people or things in general, or about all the members of a group. There is little difference of meaning; every often suggests ‘without exception’. The two words are used in different structures.
📄️ *each*
each + singular
📄️ *each* and *every*: the difference
each with two or more; every with three or more
📄️ *both*
Meaning
📄️ *either*
either + singular
📄️ *neither*
neither + singular noun
📄️ *some*
Meaning: indefinite quantity/number
📄️ *any*
Meaning: indefinite amount or number
📄️ any = ‘it doesn’t matter who/which/what’
Any can be used to emphasise the idea of free choice, with the meaning of ‘it doesn’t matter who/which/what’. With this meaning, any is common in affirmative clauses as well as questions and negatives, and is often used with singular countable nouns as well as uncountables and plurals. In speech, it is stressed.
📄️ *some* and *any*: the main differences
Indefinite quantities
📄️ *any* and *every*: the difference
Any and every can both be used to talk in general about all the members of a class or group.
📄️ *no*, *none* and *not a/any*
no: emphatic
📄️ *no one* and *none*
no one
📄️ *much* and *many*
The difference
📄️ more
more (of)
📄️ most
most (of)
📄️ (a) little and (a) few
Uncountable and plural
📄️ *less* and *fewer*
The difference
📄️ *least* and *fewest*
the least as determiner: superlative of little
📄️ enough
enough + noun
📄️ Quantifying expressions: *a lot*, *lots*, *a great deal*, *the majority*, etc
Introduction; use of of