Grammar：Too and enough
【明報專訊】Pat, Dr Panda and Bill are cooking in the kitchen. Neither of them knows how to make a cheese pizza. They are searching for an online recipe.
Dr Panda: According to this web, to kick off, we need to preheat the oven and grease the baking tray using melted butter.
Pat: Butter is tasty, I will add more.
Dr Panda: Stop! There is too much butter on the tray! The pizza will be flooded with oil if you add more than enough butter!
Pat: What's the next step?
Dr Panda: Mix the egg, milk, and flour together. Oops, it seems like we do not have enough milk.
Pat: Never mind. Cooking is all about improvising! I will add more eggs then. What should I do after making a dough?
Dr Panda: We need to spread the tomatoes, onions, and mushrooms on top of the dough. We are running out of tomatoes. There are too few mushrooms as well.
Pat: Let's add more onions then!
Dr Panda: Oh my god! You put too many onions on top! This is basically an onion pizza!
Pat: That's alright. Should I put it in the oven now?
Dr Panda: You need to sprinkle the cheese and herbs on top of it before baking it for 10 minutes.
(After 10 minutes)
Pat: What has happened? Why is our pizza burnt?
Bill: We must have put too little milk and too many eggs when we were making the dough. This is a disaster!
■English highway﹕
We use too much or too many to describe quantities which are more than enough.
We use too few or too little to describe quantities which are less than enough.
Too much and too little are followed by uncountable nouns while too many and too few are followed by countable nouns.
■Gear up
Circle the correct answer.
1. There is (too much/too many) salt in the soup.
2. He bought (too many/to little) books at the exhibition.
3. There is (too little/too many) time to finish the assignment.
4. There are (too much/ too few) students in this class.
(Answers on next text)
■Glossary
improvise (v) 即興做
dough (n) 麵糰
sprinkle (v) 灑
disaster (n) 災難
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