河南省淮阳中学 李老师英语资料 “大量、许多”的表达方式 河南省淮阳中学 李景祥 词组 a lot of lots of plenty of a wealth of quantities of a large/grea quantity of 名 例句 U & Pl There are a lot / lots of books on the shelf. There was a lot / lots of money in the safe. There's plenty of room in my bag. He has plenty of good novels. This is a book with a wealth of illustrations. He had a wealth of opportunity to succeed, but he gave up at last. She has quantities of good clothes. They spent quantities of money on building a huge bridge. Huge quantities of oil were spilling into the sea. A large quantity of books were printed. A quantity of jewellery was taken during the burglary. 注意： 这一组词语引导的短语在句子中作主语时，谓语动词的数要与of后的名词的数保持一致。 a large / good number of numbers of scores of a great / good deal of， a/an fair，great , vast, incalculable large，suitable moderate，small substantial, limited amount of huge amounts of U They bought a (large / good) number of English-Chinese dictionaries in the bookstore yesterday. Pl Last Sunday I saw numbers of foreigners in the street. I've been there scores of times. We have learned a great deal of valuable experience from them. A computer can store a vast amount of information. We’ve had an enormous amount of help from people. The server is designed to store huge amounts of data. a considerable/large/enormous etc amount of a small/tiny etc amount of dirt A certain amount of stress can be a good thing. I still do a certain amount of work. Huge amounts of farmland has been eatten up by the growth of cities. 注意：这一组词语引导的短语在句中作主语时，句子的谓语要用复数形式。 注意：这一组词语引导的短语作主语时，句子的谓语要用单数形式。 many a Many a student安定many a teacher is planting trees. 1 河南省淮阳中学 李老师英语资料 附注： a large quantity of 后接单数还是复数动词要根据前面的名词作判断---这一点比较统一the quantity of 不管后面是名词的复数形式还是不可数名词，都把主语当成一个主体，后接动词单数形式，这也是比较统一的认识。 但quantities of 后接动词的单数还是复数形式，不同语法书就有不同的认识。有的认为不管怎样都用复数形式，有的认为 quantities of +不可数名词+单数动词 + 复数名词+复数动词 所以不好形式统一的认识。但是赞成都用复数的人比较多。 eg: A large quantity of books were printed. A quantity of jewellery was taken during the burglary. a large/small/vast etc quantity of something He had consumed a large quantity of alcohol. Huge quantities of oil were spilling into the sea. A large quantity of clothing was stolen from the shop. a great quantity (= more formal than 'large' ) The Romans imported a great quantity of sculpture from Greece. a vast/huge/enormous quantity Computers can handle vast quantities of data. a considerable/substantial quantity (= a large or fairly large amount ) Dolphins need to eat considerable quantities of food. a sufficient quantity (= enough ) How did they obtain sufficient quantities of food to survive? a small quantity Remove a small quantity of butter from the fridge. a tiny quantity (= very small ) This truly great wine is only made in tiny quantities. 2 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/005672ef9dc3d5bbfd0a79563c1ec5da50e2d62c.html