Quantifiers for uncountable nouns

Take a look at these two questions:

How much milk do you drink?

How many cartons of milk do buy a week?

Why do we use much in the first qustion and many in the second?

Milk is an uncountable (non-countable) noun like water, snow and rice.

Cartons of milk are countable so we use many. Other countable nouns include people, houses and pens.

A cartoon is a quantifier. Quantifiers allow us to make uncountable nouns countable. They specify amounts or units.

Example Quantifiers

A bottle of water.

Two cans of cola.

Three boxes of tissues.

Now choose the correct quantifier or noun. Some of the quantifiers are used with countable nouns.

• 1) We need to buy a ___ of sugar.
  
  can
  glass
  carton
  bag
  
  
• 2) Would you like another ___ of wine?
  
  tube
  jar
  cup
  glass
  
  
• 3) There's a ___ of bread in the kitchen.
  
  bunch
  loaf
  bottle
  jar
  
  
• 4) I'm going to make myself another ___ of tea.
  
  mug
  bottle
  can
  jar
  
  
• 5) Put that ___ of mayonnaise back in the fridge
  
  jar
  bag
  box
  tin
  
  
• 6) He gave me a ___ of flowers for our anniversary.
  
  lots
  group
  bag
  bunch
  
  
• 7) Where's the ___ of toothpaste?
  
  box
  bottle
  glass
  tube
  
  
• 8) We've already finished those two ___ of cereal.
  
  boxes
  boxing
  box
  boxed
  
  
• 9) Buy one ___ of lettuce and one __ of cabbage.
  
  head
  eye
  foot
  finger
  
  
• 10) Shall we open a ___ of biscuits?
  
  packet
  bowl
  tube
  glass