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English Learner 2593 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Little is known/a lot has been found out

Hi everybody,

Please consider the following, as I have some questions regarding it:

'Little is known about the artist's early life although a lot has been found out about his later life.'

First: Are both 'little' and 'a lot' pronoun here?

Second: If we wanted to use nouns after those pronoun what words would be more suitable?for example( Little finding)

Third: Can we revised the above sentence as following?

'People known little about the artist's early life although They have found out a lot about his later life.'

Fourth: Are those 'little' and 'a lot' pronoun in revised version too?


I apologize for asking too many questions.

Thanks in advanced.

  

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English Learner 2593 First: Are both 'little' and 'a lot' pronoun here? Yes, pronouns or nouns (whether "(a) lot" should be classified as a pronoun seems debatable). for example( Little finding) We don't use nouns after pronouns.

— GPY

  • English Learner 2593 First: Are both 'little' and 'a lot' pronoun here?
  • Yes, pronouns or nouns (whether "(a) lot" should be classified as a pronoun seems debatable).
  • for example( Little finding) We don't use nouns after pronouns.
  • g.
  • as in "we have little knowledge of the artist's early life".
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English Learner 2593First: Are both 'little' and 'a lot' pronoun here?

Yes, pronouns or nouns (whether "(a) lot" should be classified as a pronoun seems debatable).

English Learner 2593Second: If we wanted to use nouns after those pronoun what words would be more suitable?for example( Little finding)

We don't use n

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First, read this entry: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/quantifiers/little-a-little-few-a-few

At the bottom, you will find a description of "little" as a pronoun.

We can use (a) little and (a) few as pronouns. We can us
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