Point 61 in the category of PRONOUNS/quantity is defined as:
‘BOTH’, ‘A FEW’, ‘ANOTHER’ as subject and object pronouns.
*We have covered the use of ‘another’ here.
A search in iWeb corpus for:
. both _V
1 . BOTH ARE 48684
2 . BOTH HAVE 15241
3 . BOTH WERE 15188
4 . BOTH WILL 4328
5 . BOTH CAN 4026
6 . BOTH HAD 2918
7 . BOTH OFFER 1408
8 . BOTH WORK 1162
9 . BOTH WOULD 1137
10 . BOTH SHOULD 933
11 . BOTH REQUIRE 887
12 . BOTH USE 875
13 . BOTH COME 787
14 . BOTH FEATURE 678
15 . BOTH PROVIDE 633
16 . BOTH SEEM 631
17 . BOTH COULD 554
18 . BOTH MUST 536
19 . BOTH CAME 520
20 . BOTH NEED 506
21 . BOTH LOOK 494
22 . BOTH MAKE 475
23 . BOTH MAY 472
24 . BOTH DO 429
25 . BOTH SAID 415
26 . BOTH WORKED 398
27 . BOTH CONTAIN 378
28 . BOTH INCLUDE 370
29 . BOTH SHARE 368
30 . BOTH INVOLVE 363
31 . BOTH TAKE 338
32 . BOTH GIVE 337
33 . BOTH WENT 296
34 . BOTH ALLOW 293
35 . BOTH MADE 287
36 . BOTH APPEAR 272
37 . BOTH GET 272
38 . BOTH TIMES 267
39 . BOTH SHOW 255
40 . BOTH SAY 246
41 . BOTH PLAY 211
42 . BOTH DID 211
43 . BOTH WANT 197
44 . BOTH BEING 197
45 . BOTH DIED 193
46 . BOTH SERVE 184
47 . BOTH HELP 171
48 . BOTH TOOK 162
49 . BOTH START 160
50 . BOTH BECAME 150
. A few _V
1 . A FEW ARE 1176
2 . A FEW HAVE 957
3 . A FEW WERE 703
4 . A FEW WILL 296
5 . A FEW MAY 246
6 . A FEW HAD 196
7 . A FEW MIGHT 135
8 . A FEW DO 126
9 . A FEW CAN 114
10 . A FEW DID 85
11 . A FEW INCLUDE 73
12 . A FEW SAID 70
13 . A FEW WOULD 65
14 . A FEW CAME 63
15 . A FEW USE 46
16 . A FEW GO 44
17 . A FEW SAY 36
18 . A FEW WENT 35
19 . A FEW COULD 32
20 . A FEW MADE 31
21 . A FEW REQUIRE 30
22 . A FEW COME 29
23 . A FEW MAKE 27
24 . A FEW TOOK 26
25 . A FEW REMAIN 25
26 . A FEW OFFER 25
27 . A FEW WORK 25
28 . A FEW TEST 24
29 . A FEW GET 24
30 . A FEW MANAGED 22
31 . A FEW MENTIONED 21
32 . A FEW SEEM 20
33 . A FEW STAND 19
34 . A FEW STATE 18
35 . A FEW GOT 18
36 . A FEW GOOGLE 15
37 . A FEW BATTERS 15
38 . A FEW SEEMED 15
39 . A FEW TRY 15
40 . A FEW WORE 14
41 . A FEW STANDOUT 14
42 . A FEW TAKE 13
43 . A FEW TRIED 13
44 . A FEW TRAVEL 13
45 . A FEW IS 13
46 . A FEW FIND 13
47 . A FEW LOOK 12
48 . A FEW KNOW 12
49 . A FEW BELIEVED 12
50 . A FEW WANT 12
A2 vocabulary:
became, believed, could, few, include, might, must, offer, serve, share, should, stand, tried, try
B1:
allow, appear, contain, involve, managed, mentioned, provide, remain, require, seem, seemed
TLC, Speaking Test, examples:
Do you think it‘s easier than Hindi?
No, both are the same.
Male, India, B1
Do you think people would be happy about that?
Male, India, B2
During the last two years, I had done only three glass paintings.
One is two butterflies with a flower and a bush.
Another is a bunch of flowers, and the last one is the girl eating an apple.
Female, Sri Lanka, B1