Words of quantity

On page 157 of your book, Poorvi, you find sentences from Ila Sachani's story with some words picked out: 'You will see LOTS OF bright colours', 'There are MANY lovely things', 'She learned MANY styles', 'She received MANY awards'. 'Lots of' and 'many' are words of QUANTITY — they tell us how much or how many. Here they show a LARGE quantity.

Which quantity word we use depends on the noun. Some nouns are COUNTABLE: we can count them one by one — one bus, two buses; one flower, many flowers; a few examples. Others are UNCOUNTABLE: we cannot count them one by one — milk, rice, energy, water. We do not say 'two milks' or 'three rices'.

With countable nouns we use 'many' and 'a few': We saw many buses on the road. I need a few examples. With uncountable nouns we use 'much' and 'a little': How much milk do you want? I ate a little rice.

'Lots of' is easy: it works with both kinds. You can see lots of bright colours, and you can drink lots of water.