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Lets learn several.
So several is a quantifier.
It tells us how much there is.
Its not exact, but its more than two and less than many.
We use it in front of plural nouns.
I spent several hours looking for my purse.
There are several reasons why I can't answer that question.
We can use it with other determiners, but here we add of several of my friends don't have cars.
You got several of the answers wrong.
Like many quantifiers, we can also use it as a pronoun thats instead of a noun rather than in front of it.
I didnt know which key to use, so I tried several good restaurants in town.
There are several, so several is used to talk about quantity.
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