Choose and underline the proper item to complete the sentences.

1. Come about 11 o’clock. I’ll have little / a little time then.

2. There was little / a little water on the mountain and we all got very thirsty.

3. Foreign languages are difficult, and few / a few people learn them perfectly.

4. I’m going to the USA with few / a few friends next week.

5. I’ve brought you few / a few sweets.

6. I have little / a little time to read news on the Internet and no time at all to read books.

7. Did you buy any furniture? “A little / a few.”

 

16. Fill in the blanks with little / a little or few / a few.

1. I don’t think I can lift this box on my own. I need ….. help.

2. ….. tourists visited Northern Ireland in the 1980s because of the terrorism there.

3. The postman doesn’t often come here. We receive ….. letters.

4. He isn’t finding it’s easy to fix the shelves. He’s having ….. trouble.

5. I can speak ….. words of Swedish , but I’m not very fluent.

6. There were ….. new words in the text. Ann spent ….. time learning them.

7. I would like to stay here ….. longer, it’s such a nice place.