Articles and Nouns - Expressing Quantity
Guided Practice
Each phrase below ends with a non-count noun (for example, stuff, sugar, or homework). In order to express quantity with such non-count nouns, you must use a phrase consisting of the following components in the order shown:
A. a word expressing the quantity
B. a count noun
C. the preposition of
D. the non-count noun
For each phrase below, consider a possible choice for an appropriate count noun that could appear in the blank space. Then click on ANSWER to see some possible choices.
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Several ________ of sugar. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: boxes, cubes, bowls, packets.
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Three ________ of homework. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: hours, kinds, pieces.
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Some ________ of ice. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: cubes, bags, lumps, pieces.
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Fifty ________ of evidence. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: traces, pieces, bags, rules.
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A few ________ of rice. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: boxes, tons, fields.
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A ________ of sunshine. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: ray, day, moment.
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Two ________ of football. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: games, halves, hours.
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A dozen ________ of oxygen. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: containers, cylinders, pounds, bottles.
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Lots of ________ of food. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: bags, truckloads, cans, boxes.
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Ten ________ of gasoline. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: gallons, tanks, liters, cans.
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Several ________ of soap. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: bars, cakes, boxes, pieces.
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One ________ of traffic. ANSWER
POSSIBLE CHOICES: lane, line.