tailieunhanh - Oxford guide to english grammar part 33

Tham khảo tài liệu 'oxford guide to english grammar part 33', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 20 POSSESSIVES AND DEMONSTRATIVES PAGE 218 e We can use this or that to refer to something mentioned before. I simply haven t got the money. This is That s the problem. Here this that means the fact that I haven t got the money. That is more usual. Here are two examples from real conversations. The rooms are so big. That s why it s cold. Well if you haven t got television you can t watch it. That s true. But when we refer forward to what we are going to say we use this. What I d like to say is this. The government has. f We can use that those to replace a noun phrase with the and so avoid repeating the noun. The temperature of a snake is the same as that of the surrounding air. that the temperature Those people who ordered lunch should go to the dining-room. This can happen only when there is a phrase or clause after that those . ofthe surrounding air. That is rather formal in this pattern. PAGE 219 21 Quantifiers 6 Summary A quantifier is a word like many a lot of both all enough. Large and small quantities 177 Some quantifiers express a large or small quantity. Large The burglars did a lot of damage. Small The burglars took afew things. Whole and part quantities all most both etc 178 Some quantifiers express the whole or a part of a quantity. Whole All crime should be reported. Part Most crime remains unsolved. Some any and no 179 Some has two different meanings. The burglars took some money. an amount of money Some ofthe money was recovered. a part of the money We use any mainly in negatives and questions. They didn t leave any fingerprints. Have they done any damage But any can also mean it doesn t matter which . I mfree all week. Come any day you like. Other quantifiers 180 Others are enough plenty of another and some more. Quantifiers without a noun 181 We can use a quantifier without a noun. Some burglars get caught but most get away. most most burglars OVERVIEW quantifiers 182 NOTE For numbers 191. For quantifiers expressing a comparison . more most .