Some Notes on Quantifiers Like articles, quantifiers are words that precede and modify nouns. They tell us how many or how much. Selecting the correct quantifier depends on your understanding the distinction between Count and Non-Count Nouns . For our purposes, we will choose the count noun trees and the non-count noun time : The following quantifiers will work with count nouns : many trees a few trees few trees several trees a couple of trees none of the trees The following quantifiers will work with non-count nouns : not much time a little time little time a bit of time a good deal of time a great deal of time no time The following quantifiers will work with both count and non-count nouns : all of the trees/time some trees/time most of the trees/time enough trees/time a lot of trees/time lots of trees/time plenty of t