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layoli

help me please

Hello everybody:

I hope you have been great vacations

Help me please, I know we use ï¿½muchï¿½ with uncountable nouns, and ï¿½manyï¿½ with countable nouns, but I check some printable and it showed that ï¿½much and manyï¿½ ï¿½usually use it in questions and negations,ï¿½ is it true? When this meaning is used? Is it compare with others words?

Thank you

layoli

21 Jul 2009

GIOVANNI

I believe much and many are usually used in negative sentences and questions.

Much is not usually used in affirmative sentences. For this we normally use a lot of or lots of.

Many can be used in affirmative sentences, but I would say a lot of or lots of is more common in spoken English:

Much can be used in affirmative sentences when it is preceded by so, too or as:

I think he has so much work.

He has too much work.

Do as much work as possible before you leave.

I hope this helps.

21 Jul 2009

zailda

It ï¿½s not wrong to use much and many in affirmative, but the usage shows that normally they say:

I have lots of things to do.

instead of I have many things to do.

More often you see There ï¿½s plenty of, a lot, etc milk. than "There ï¿½s much milk."

Much / many are more used in the negative and interrogative. It doesn ï¿½t mean that it ï¿½s wrong to use them in affirmative sentences, but it ï¿½ll sound less natural.

21 Jul 2009

Apodo