Ejercicio 4 · Los incontables que engañan

Ficha 3 · Los incontables que engañan (difícil)

Elige la opción correcta.

1. I need ___ about the course.many informationsmany informationmuch informationa lot of informationsmuch information. Information es incontable en inglés y no tiene plural. Nunca informations.
2. She gave me ___ .a good advicemany good advicesa few advicessome good advicesome good advice. Advice tampoco es contable. Si quieres contarlo: a piece of advice.
3. There is ___ in the report.too much datatoo many datatoo many datasa lot of datastoo much data. Data se usa hoy como incontable en la mayoría de contextos.
4. We don’t have ___ .many furnituresmuch furnituremany furniturea lot of furnituresmuch furniture. Furniture es incontable: los muebles se cuentan con pieces of furniture.
5. How ___ luggage are you taking?manya lot ofmuchfewmuch luggage. Incontable. Las maletas sueltas serían suitcases, que sí se cuentan.
6. ___ of my time goes on emails.ManyA lotFewMuchMuch of my time. Delante de of con incontable se usa much, no a lot suelto.
7. He has ___ knowledge of the subject.a great deal ofmanya fewseverala great deal of va con incontables. Las otras tres piden contables en plural.
8. There were ___ mistakes in the text.muchplenty ofa great deal ofa littleplenty of funciona con contables en plural. Much, a great deal of y a little son para incontables.
9. ¿Cuál es correcta?She has few friends, so she is happy.She has little friends, so she is happy.She has a few friends, so she is happy.She has a little friends, so she is happy.a few friends. Sin artículo, few significa pocos y sería negativo, lo que choca con happy. Y little no va con contables.
10. I don’t have ___ patience for this.manya fewseveralmuchmuch patience. Otro incontable que en español parece contable.