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Yōfuku o takusan kaimashita.

I bought a lot of clothes.

Kono mise wa kodomo fuku mo sukoshi arimasu.
This store has some children’s clothes.

O-kyaku-san ga ōzei kimashita.

Many shoppers came.

Kono mise no manga wa minna yonda koto ga arimasu.

I have read all the comic books in this store.

6.3. Use of numbers and quantity words

Numbers and quantity words occur as ordinary nouns,

connected by no to the nouns they modify. They occur also

as adverbs without any particle following, and in this case
they usually follow the NOUN + PARTICLE expression to which
they refer, although sometimes they are put at the very

beginning as if modifying the whole sentence, and
sometimes you hear them in other positions.

If the particle after the noun is any particle other than wa,

ga, or o, the number or quantity word must precede as a
regular modifying noun: futari no hito kara ‘from two people,’

takusan no gakkō e ‘to many schools.’ But if the particle after
the noun is wa, ga, or o, the number or quantity word can

either precede with no, or follow as an adverb with no