This exercise is about the use of quantity words. A quantity word is often used with a noun to indicate a quantity or only a part of a whole (partitive). For example, a wad of banknotes, a piece of cake, a slice of bread.
Fill in each blank with one of the following quantity words. Each of these quantity words is to be used only once.
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1. book, collection, copy, edition, file, pack, piece, scrap, set, sheet. 2. bar, cake, cube, drop, dollop, grain, knob, pinch, sack, sheaf 3. bale, blade, chunk, clod, grain, lump, pile, speck, slab, splinter 4. bead, blob, bottle, cloud, drop, jar, nip, pint, pool, puff 5. barrel, block, box, deck, pack, pair, sack, set, speck, splinter