2.211 Talking about amounts of things: other partitives

When you want to talk about a particular quantity of something, you can use a partitive structure which consists of a particular partitive linked by 'of' to another noun. The partitives are all count nouns.

If the partitive is singular, then the verb used with it is usually singular. If it is plural, the verb is also plural.

Note that all partitives consist of two or more words, because 'of' is needed in every case, and is printed in the lists below as a reminder.