Question

laurie: how ______ pages are there in your notebook?
gina: there are one hundred ______ in my notebook.
laurie: can i have a piece of ______ from your notebook?
gina: yes. here you go. now i have ______ pages in my notebook!
practice the conversations with a classmate.

Explanation:

To solve this fill - in - the - blank problem, we analyze the context of each sentence:

Sentence 1: "How ____ pages are there in your notebook?"

We need a word to ask about the quantity of pages. The word "many" is used with countable nouns (and "pages" is a countable noun) in questions about quantity. So we use "many" here.

Sentence 2: "There are one hundred ____ in my notebook."

The context is about the number of pages in the notebook. The word "pages" is the appropriate noun to fill in, as we are talking about the count of pages.

Sentence 3: "Can I have a piece of ____ from your notebook?"

When we talk about a "piece of" something related to a notebook, "paper" is a common and appropriate choice, as we can take a piece of paper from a notebook.

Sentence 4: "Now I have ____ pages in my notebook!"

We need a word to describe the number of pages. "ninety - nine" is a number that can be used to tell the quantity of pages.

Answer:

1. many
2. pages
3. paper
4. ninety - nine