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Determiners of Quantity with Count Nouns 18 Jun 2014, 08:15
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My question pertains to DETERMINERS OF QUANTITY With Count Nouns & With Non-Count Nouns. The table on page 30 of the GMAT Ultimate Grammar book shows that "A GREAT DEAL OF" is not used with Count Nouns. However, the answer key to Exercise 5 (on page 247) shows that it can be used in the sentence Joan drank_______sodas. Sodas appears to me to be a Count Noun. This appears to be a conflict. What am I missing? Please help.
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Hi,

My question pertains to DETERMINERS OF QUANTITY With Count Nouns & With Non-Count Nouns. The table on page 30 of the GMAT Ultimate Grammar book shows that "A GREAT DEAL OF" is not used with Count Nouns. However, the answer key to Exercise 5 (on page 247) shows that it can be used in the sentence Joan drank_______sodas. Sodas appears to me to be a Count Noun. This appears to be a conflict. What am I missing? Please help.
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I'm happy to help. :-)

I must admit, I have my suspicions about the GMAT Ultimate Grammar book. I have my suspicions about the value of anything one can get for free. I don't know if you are familiar with the sarcastic phrase: "free ... and worth every penny"?

The phrase "a great deal of" can be used either with countable nouns or with uncountable nouns. I have no idea why the Ultimate Grammar book seemed to indicate there was some kind of restriction. There isn't. I will say, though, that the phrase "a great deal of" is a bit casual, and not the most likely candidate for showing up on the GMAT SC.

For more on countable vs. uncountable, see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gramm ... -vs-fewer/

Mike :-)
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Determiners of Quantity with Count Nouns 20 Jun 2014, 12:16
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Hi,

My question pertains to DETERMINERS OF QUANTITY With Count Nouns & With Non-Count Nouns. The table on page 30 of the GMAT Ultimate Grammar book shows that "A GREAT DEAL OF" is not used with Count Nouns. However, the answer key to Exercise 5 (on page 247) shows that it can be used in the sentence Joan drank_______sodas. Sodas appears to me to be a Count Noun. This appears to be a conflict. What am I missing? Please help.
Dear gmanage
I'm happy to help. :-)

I must admit, I have my suspicions about the GMAT Ultimate Grammar book. I have my suspicions about the value of anything one can get for free. I don't know if you are familiar with the sarcastic phrase: "free ... and worth every penny"?

The phrase "a great deal of" can be used either with countable nouns or with uncountable nouns. I have no idea why the Ultimate Grammar book seemed to indicate there was some kind of restriction. There isn't. I will say, though, that the phrase "a great deal of" is a bit casual, and not the most likely candidate for showing up on the GMAT SC.

For more on countable vs. uncountable, see:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2012/gmat-gramm ... -vs-fewer/

Mike :-)
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Gmatclub Grammar book does say that a great deal of is used with uncountable nouns and the question pg 31 of GMAT CLUB is as follows..

Here there are various usage of countable and uncountable nouns are shown and a great deal of can be used in the sentence if we are looking at volume of sodas which is not countable.

Ofcourse number of soda is countable and hence can be used. The excercise asks what cannot be used and as we can see there are number of choices for the question where in we can use both countable and uncountable nouns...

Hope it helps...

Answered the post here :

determiners-of-quantity-with-count-nouns-172792.html#p1375057

Let me know if I am correct