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Welcome everyone.

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Today we're going to look at
the difference between

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'few' and 'a few'.

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Have a look at these
two sentences.

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Which sentence has 
a more negative feeling?

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Number 1.
I have few friends.

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Number 2. I have a few friends 
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
that the total number

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of something is not as many
as we would like

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- that the number is small.

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

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When we use 'a few',

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we're not talking about
the total number,

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but a category of something.

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It has a similar meaning
to 'some'.

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

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Just 
remember,

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we always use this with
countable nouns only,

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so please
be careful.

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See you next time!