Please don’t give me any more, I have had ________.
- (a)few
- (b)too little
- (c)little
- (d)enough
Answer
Why
Correct — D, 'enough'. 'Please don't give me any more' tells us the speaker already has as much as is wanted, and 'enough' is the word for a sufficient quantity. It also stands alone as a pronoun after 'have had', which is what the sentence requires.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)few — 'Few' means a small number and points to countable things; it also carries a sense of scarcity, the reverse of what the speaker means.
- (b)too little — 'Too little' complains that there was not enough, which contradicts a request to stop serving.
- (c)little — 'Little' likewise means hardly any, so it would invite more food rather than refuse it.
Concept
Quantifiers carry direction as well as amount, so 'enough' signals sufficiency while 'little' and 'few' signal shortage.
The first half of the sentence is the whole clue. A refusal of more can only rest on a word meaning there is already sufficient, which rules out the three scarcity words in one stroke.
Key facts
- 'Enough' can work as a pronoun on its own, as in 'I have had enough'.
- 'Little' and 'few' without an article carry the negative sense of hardly any.
- Adding the article, as in 'a little' and 'a few', turns the sense positive.
Study next
Common traps
- Choosing 'little' or 'few' without noticing that they mean scarcity.
- Forgetting that 'enough' can stand without a following noun.
Asked as a selecting-words item — pick the word that fits the blank.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
________ students attended the lecture, so it was cancelled.
- (a)A few
- (b)Few
- (c)Enough
- (d)Many
Answer(b) Few — without the article, 'few' means hardly any. - practice — not a real PYQ
There is ________ milk in the jug for everyone.
- (a)few
- (b)little
- (c)enough
- (d)too little
Answer(c) enough — it states that the quantity is sufficient.