分级量词
分级量词让我们能对两件事的量做比较，但不会具体指出两件事的确切数量。分级量词后接的是名词，而可数名词和不可数名词会需要用上不同的量词。有时候，如果从语境中可以明确地知道比较的名词是何物，则可以省略名词。
分级量词有比较级和最高级之分，其比较的是某个特性（形容词）的程度，或比较做某件事情的方式（副词）程度。分级量词（如比较级和最高级）在增加或减少的等级上，都有相应的位置。句中最高级量词前面一律加 the。
| 量词 | 比较级 | 最高级 |
|---|---|---|
| 如果后面是复数的可数名词 | ||
| many | more | most |
| few | fewer | fewest |
| 如果后面是不可数名词 | ||
| much | more | most |
| little | less | least |
举例
- There are many people in England, more people in India, but the most people live in China.
- Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defence.
- Few rivers in Europe are not polluted.
- Fewer people die young now than in the seventeenth century.
- The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.
- Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before the year 2020.
- She had less time to study than Paul but had better results.
- Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.