Graded Quantifiers - Quantifiers | English Grammar - English Free Test
They function like comparatives and hold a relative position on a scale of
increase or decrease .
Example
- There are many people in England, more in India,
but the most people live in China.
- Much time and money is spent on education , more on
health services but the most is spent on national defence.
- Few rivers in Europe are not polluted.
- Fewer people die young now than in the seventeenth century.
- The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be
Australia.
- Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer
before the year 2,000.
- She had less time to study than Paul but had better results.
- Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.