Partitives show fractional quantities, often used with food, substances, or abstract ideas.

Fractional Quantities

Use partitives when the exact amount is unknown or unimportant.

Indefinite Quantities

Partitives can change meaning with context; 'some' can imply a small or a large amount.

Partitive nouns help specify an amount or number in a general way.

They are used to refer to a collective group as opposed to individual entities.

Partitives are used when the exact identity of the nouns they modify is not specified.