大量

●1. 只能修饰可数名词复数形式的有:many, a great/good many, quite a few,a(large)number of,large numbers of,等,其后的谓语动词要用复数形式｡如:
A large number of houses were destroyed in the earthquake.
A great many people lost their lives in the accident.
注意 a number of 与the number of的区别｡
a number of后接名词的复数形式,其后接动词的复数形式,意义为“许多……,一些……”;而the number of后接名词的复数形式,其后接动词的单数形式,意义为“……的数量”｡如:
●2. 只能修饰可数名词单数形式的有:many a,more than one,其后的谓语动词用单数形式｡如:
Many a student likes watching basketball games.
Many students like watching basketball games.
More than one student in our class likes collecting stamps.
●3. 只能修饰不可数名词的有:much,quite a little,a great deal of,a large amount of 等,其后的谓语动词用单数形式｡如:
Much time was wasted in watching TV series.
Every day my daughter has quite a little homework to do.
注意 a great deal of和a great deal的区别｡
a great deal of后接不可数名词,其意义为“许多”;而a great deal是副词短语,修饰动词,其意义为“十分,非常”｡如:
A great deal of work was done by the children in the park.
Thanks a great deal.
●4. 既可修饰可数名词,又可修饰不可数名词的有:plenty of,a lot of,lots of,a mass of,masses of等,谓语动词的单复数形式根据它们后面所接的名词的形式而定｡如:
A lot of big trees were blown down last night.
Plenty of food was left for the next two weeks.
●5. a large quantity of和large quantities of后既可接可数名词复数形式,也可接不可数名词,谓语动词的单复数形式要根据quantity的单复数形式来决定｡如:
A large quantity of flowers has been planted in our school. (quantity是单数,故动词用单数has)
Large quantities of food were sent to the flooded areas. (quantity是复数,故动词用复数were)
●巩固练习●
1.__________student fails in the test.
A. Many
B. Many a
C. Quite a little
D. A large quantity of
2.__________ money has been spent on the environmental protection.
A. A great deal
B. A great deal of
C. A lot
D. Quite a few
3. A large quantity of patients __________ sent to the hospital at once.
A. have been
B. has
C. were
D. was
4. __________ the people are against going to Sydney,so they have to give it up.
A. Most of
B. A large number of
C. The number of
D. Many
5. After the new technique was introduced,the factory produced __________tractors in 2007 as the year before.
A. as twice many
B. as many twice
C. twice as many
D. twice many as
6. __________people can write with the left hand.
A. Not many a
B. Many not
C. Not many
D. Not more than one
7. It is impossible for so _______ workers to do so---- work in a single day.
A. few;much
B. few;many
C. little;much
D. little;many
8. The number of people invited __________ fifty,but a number of them __________ absent for different reasons.
A. were;was
B. was;was
C.were;were
D. was;were
9. As a result of destroying the forests,a large __________ of desert __________ covered the land.
A. quantity;have
B. quantity;has
C. number;have
D. number;has
10. There is __________ coal in this area.
A. a great deal
B. a lots of
C. quite a few
D. a large amount of。