a large amount of 和 large amounts of的区别

Question

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Answer 1

a
large
amount
of
和
large
amounts
of
在词义上没有区别，但在与之搭配的谓语动词上有单数和复数的差别。
Amount
是一个很有意思的单词。它用来表达“量”的概念，而且是用于表达不可数名词的“量”。然而这个词本身却是可数的，而且用在句子中会改变所描述的不可数名词，使其变成可数的语法形式与谓语动词进行搭配：
My
money
was
wasted.
A
large
amount
of
money
was
wasted.
Large
amounts
of
money
were
wasted.
用于修饰
amount
的形容词要用
large/small，而不能用
big/little：
We
used
only
a
small
amount
of
water.
They
gave
out
large
amounts
of
food.