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Welcome everyone.

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Today we're going to look at[br]the difference between

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'few' and 'a few'.

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Have a look at these[br]two sentences.

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Which sentence has [br]a more negative feeling?

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Number 1.[br]I have few friends.

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Number 2. I have a few friends [br]who live in London.

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It was sentence number one, right?

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When we use 'few', we're saying[br]that the total number

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of something is not as many[br]as we would like

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- that the number is small.

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Here, I'm telling you that[br]I don't have many friends.

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When we use 'a few',

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we're not talking about[br]the total number,

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but a category of something.

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It has a similar meaning[br]to 'some'.

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Here, I'm telling you that [br]some of my friends live in London.

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Just [br]remember,

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we always use this with[br]countable nouns only,

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so please[br]be careful.

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See you next time!