Original sentence: ,  (yí běn shū, one-CL book) means "one book", but  (shū-běn, book-CL) means "the books" (for example, "the books in the library" or "the books on the shelf").A classifier may be placed after a noun, rather than before, to convey a plural sense: e.Furthermore, a classifier may be used along with the word "one", after a noun, to mean approximately "all of", "the entire", or "a ___ful of", as in  (tiānkōng yí piàn yún, sky one-CL cloud), which means "the sky was full of clouds", where  piàn "slice" is the classifier used for the sky, not for clouds.In addition to counting and demonstratives, classifiers have other limited uses.Many classifiers may be reduplicated to mean "every", as in  (gè-ge rén, CL-CL person, "every person")
Edited sentence: A classifier placed after a noun pluralizes it.By way of illustration,   (gè-ge rén, CL-CL person) signifies "every person".Finally, a classifier used along with 一 (yī, "one"), and after a noun, conveys a meaning close to "all of", "the entire" or "a ___ful of".For example,  (shū-běn, book-CL) means "the books" (e.Furthermore, many classifiers may be reduplicated to mean "every".In addition to being used with numbers and demonstratives, classifiers have other limited uses.The sentence  (tiānkōng yí piàn yún, sky one-CL cloud) meaning "the sky was full of clouds" uses the classifier  (piàn, "slice") applied to the sky – not the clouds.on a shelf or in a library) whereas the standard pre-nominal construction  (yí běn shū, one-CL book) means "one book"