许多”表达何其多 在英文中，将这些表示“许多，很多”的词组按其用法归类： 一、只能修饰可数名词的“许多” many、 a great/good many 、a great/large number of 、scores of、dozens of和quite a few ,这类“许多”修饰作主语的名词时，谓语动词用复数 记忆技巧：修饰可数名词你会发现构成短语的主要名词many，number，score，dozen本身都是可数的 Eg： I have many things to do. There are a great/good many English books in our school library. A great number of my friends have been to the Great Wall. Scores/Dozens of people were killed in the accident. I have made quit a few good friends,too. 温馨提示： 1）many 作代词，表示“许多人，许多”的意思 eg Many of them have watched the TV play. 2) a great/good many 做代词，表示“许多人（东西）” eg A great many of us like American English better than British English.(我们中的许多人喜欢美语胜过英国英语） 3）the number of + n （可数名词复数）表示"....的数目”,用它做主语时，谓语用单数 eg The number of the students in our class is 55. The number of books missing from the school library is large． 二．只能修饰不可数名词的“许多” much、 a great / good deal of 和a large amount of ，quite a few这类“许多”修饰主语名词时候，谓语用单数 记忆技巧：much，本身不可数；deal，amount都是"量”，没法量。所以加不可数 Eg： I don't know they gave us much help. There is a great/good deal of snow on the ground. I spend a large amount of money on books every month. 温馨提示： 1）much 单用，做名词表示“许多，大量” eg Much has been said about it .(关于这种事已经说的很多了） 2）a great deal 做名词词组和副词词组，也表示“大量，许多”/ 还可以修饰比较级，表示程度。 eg At the end of the year there was a great deal to do .(年底有很多事情做） eg They talked a great deal about the problem.(他们对这个问题谈论了许多） （他今天好多了）（修饰比较级，表示程度） 三、既可以修饰可数名词复数，又可以修饰不可数名词 a lot of 、lots of 、plenty of 、supplies of ，a great/quantity of 、great/large quantities of 记忆技巧：lot，plenty，quantity他们本身自己都是集合名词，包容性好，所以二者皆可。 温馨提示： 1）a lot 名词词组表示“大量，很多”/做副词词组表示“很多，非常，相当”/做程度状语修饰比较急 很多事 名词） Eg： he helped me a lot （副词 很多） I like this picture quite a lot (副词 非常） 2）large quantities of + 不可数名词/可数名词复数 ，谓语用复数 Eg： Large quantities of water are needed every day. (修饰不可数n） There are quantities of flowers in garden.（修饰可数n 复数） 3) a quantity of的谓语动词。 +不可数n, 谓语动词单数； Eg： A small quantity of water is needed． +可数n复，谓语动词用复数。 Eg：There are a large quantity of flowers in the garden． 4) great／large quantities of+。+不可数n/+可数n复，谓语动词都用复数。 Eg： Large quantities of food were on the table． 总结：要记短语先分清短语中的关键词，就不会混了。 本文来源：https://www.wddqw.com/doc/a405f38aa31614791711cc7931b765ce05087a85.html