curriculum/challenges/english/blocks/learn-how-to-manage-a-conversation/67e69ab793f4191da2f3b5b3.md
Listen to the audio and complete the sentence below.
If you don't mind, I'd like to take a BLANK minutes to explain it to the rest of the team.
few
Preceded by a, this is used with countable nouns (like minutes) and means a small number.
A few is used to talk about a small number of countable things. For example:
We have a few tasks left to finish. – You use a few, since tasks is a countable noun.
To take a little time means to spend a small amount of time doing something. Time is an uncountable noun, so you use a little, not a few. For example:
I need a little time to review this. – You use a little, since time is an uncountable noun.
Other examples of usage:
A few minutes – Minutes are countable.
A little water – Water is uncountable.
A few emails – Emails are countable.
A little information – Information is uncountable.
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