1. Tense Categories of the English Language

27 Numeral and quantitative words
Quantitative pronouns are much , many ,/a/ few , /a/ little. All of them are both noun- and adjective pronouns. Many and /a/ few are used with countable nouns and much ,/a/ little with uncountable .
In common with adjectives quantitative pronouns have the category of comparison. For this reason some grammarians do not include them in pronouns.
Якщо перед займенниками few та little вживається неозначений артикль а, йдеться про недостатню кількість. Для позначення великої кількості вживають такі словосполучення, як a lot of, lots of. The numeral is a part of speech which indicates number or the order of persons and things in a series. Accordingly numerals are divided into cardinals (cardinal nu- Berals) and ordinals (ordinal numerals).
Cardinal numerals indicate exact number, they are used in counting. As to their structure, the cardinal numerals from 1 to 12, 1000, 1,000,000 are simple words, those from 13 to 19 are derivatives with 'the suffix -teen; the cardinal numerals indicating tens are formed by means of the suffix -ty (twenty, ; thirty, etc.). The numerals from 21 to 29, from 31 to 39, etc. are Composite; twenty-two, thirty-five, etc. Ordinal numerals show the order of persons and things , a series.
With the exception of. the first three (first, second, third) ordinal numerals are formed from cardinal numerals by means the suffix -th. Ordinal numerals are generally used with the definite article: (the first, the tenth, etc.).


28. The category of word
The definition of word is one of the most difficult in linguistics because the simplest word has many different aspects. Being the central unit of any language system, the word is a sort of focus for the problems of phonology, lexicology, syntax, morphology and also for some other sciences that have to deal with language and speech, such as philosophy and psychology and probably quite a few branches of knowledge.
The term WORD denotes the basic unit of a given language resulting from the association of a particular meaning with a particular group of sounds capable of a particular grammatical employment. A word therefore is simultaneously a semantic, grammatical and phonological unit.
Eg. BOY is a group of sounds [boi], meaning- “male child up to the age of 17 – 18”, grammatical meaning- noun, has a plural form- boys, personal noun, has a genitive form- boy’s.
When a deviation affix is added, a new word is formed- LISTEN and LISTENER are different words.Words may take different functional affixes –LISTEN and LISTENED are different forms of the same word. When word is used in sentences together with other words, they are syntactically organized.