For VOA Learning English, this is Everyday Grammar. Today we are going to talk about different ways of expressing quantity in English. If you have more than two countable items, you can use several, a ...
For example, the following sentence lends itself to two possible interpretations: (1) Old men and women left the theater. What does “old” modify in this sentence? “Men” or “men and women”? In other ...
The purpose of this project is to investigate the syntax of quantifiers and scope in the languages of the world. To this end, we have created a series of pictures that can be used to elicit scope ...