Quantifiers

Today I drill myself on quantifiers.

These are some points that I find important:

few/a few

Few refers to countable nouns. Few or very few emphasises a small number:

I know few English words so I can't understand you.

A few and quite a few emphasises positive meaning:

I know quite a few English words therefore I can teach you some of them.


little/a little

Little refers to uncountable nouns. And as in case with few little and a little have negative (small quantity) and positive meaning, respectively:

We have little bread left. You must buy some.

and

We have a little bread left. You don't need to go to the store.

! We cannot say quite a little. To emphasise the positive we use quite a bit! 

There's quite a bit time left. We can do some sightseeing.