Join us for this lesson, when we continue our lesson on countable and noncountable nouns, focusing on quantifying such nouns.  Then practice quantifying your vegetables, or anything else.

Quantifying Nouns: A Lot of Nothing

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If you want to be confused with English grammar, just look at the problem of gerunds and infinitive phrases! At the ESL Help! Desk, with our podcasts, we make it easy for you.  In this lesson, we discuss the pattern Verb + Noun or Pronoun + Infinitive Phrase.

English Grammar: Gerunds and Infinitive Phrases_Pattern_4

If you want to be confused with English grammar, just look at the problem of gerunds and infinitive phrases! At the ESL Help! Desk, with our podcasts, we make it easy for you.  In this lesson, we discuss verbs when the object is an infinitive phrase.

Quantifying Nouns: A Lot of Nothing

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