Point 82 in the category of PRONOUNS quantity is defined as: a wide range of pronouns (‘neither’, ‘either’, ‘none’) with ‘of’ followed by an object pronoun. However most of this structure overlaps with Negation point 19, so we will only investigate ‘either of them|us’ in this post. Collocates 4 spaces either side of ‘either of […]
Category: quantity
EACH … THE OTHER(S)
Point 109 in PRONOUNS and reciprocal is defined as: ‘each’ (+ noun or pronoun) as subject followed by ‘the other(s)’ as an object, to refer to two related things. (quantity) Most of the examples in iWeb corpus seem related to law. A looser search each * * * the other* * 1 EACH OTHER . […]
Many a NOUN
Point 65 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: ‘many a’ or ‘many an’ + singular noun for emphasis and focus. *We noticed that this phrase often gets used at the start of sentences. A search on iWeb corpus for many _at1 _nn: 1 MANY A TIME 3162 India Times Indian […]
‘some’ | ‘many’ OF ‘which’ | ‘whom’
Point 98 in the category of PRONOUNS and quantity is defined as: ‘some of’, ‘many of’ to modify relative pronouns in a relative clause. A search on iWeb for ngrams of some|many of _**q _v is listed below. 1 SOME OF WHICH ARE 17696 2 MANY OF WHICH ARE 17353 3 MANY OF WHOM ARE […]
little few noun
Point 59 in the category of DETERMINERS and quantity is defined as: modifier + ‘little’ + uncountable nouns and modifier + ‘few’ + countable nouns, to indicate a lack of something or not as much as expected of something. We also have an earlier post for ‘very few + noun.’ _RG\w* (little|few) _NN 1 VERY […]