Perbedaan"a few" dan "a little" "A few" digunakan dengan countable nouns (kata benda yang bisa dihitung), contohnya book (buku), house (rumah), person (orang), dan lain-lain. Karena menunjukkan bentuknya yang jamak dan bisa dihitung, maka kita perlu menambahkan -s pada kata bendanya.Itseems so obvious to me, as a native speaker of English, that 'few' and 'a few' are different. But of course, there's no reason why that should be obvious, it's just learnt. There's a smaller, but still existent, difference between 'little' and 'a little'. Compare: "The tennis coaching made a little difference to my
deEnglish Grammar Today ( A) little and ( a) few are quantifiers meaning 'some'. Little and few have negative meanings. We use them to mean 'not as much as may be expected or wished for'. Compare A little, a few with a noun We use a little with singular uncountable nouns. We use a few with plural countable nouns:
Thedifference between FEW, A FEW, LITTLE and A LITTLE in English. (These are known grammatically as quantifiers ) There are more notes at the bottom of this page: Much, Many, Lot, Few, Little which includes more example sentences.
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