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Grammar and Linguistics > as many or as much
as many or as much
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englishchou
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as many or as much
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Please what should we say in this sentence considering the countable and the uncountable nouns:
" there are some charities that claim they need volunteers every bit as ( many / much ) as they need money to make their efforts succesful".
personally, i think that we should use much but the situation is a bit confusing when we have a countable and an uncoutable nouns to have comparative of scale and what is the rule please?. thanks in advance.
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21 Feb 2010
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Carla Horne
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Hi,
You are correct. It is "much" because you are really talking about what you need. You need "this" as MUCH as you need "that."
I hope I �m not too confusing.
Carla
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21 Feb 2010
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donia
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Well I agree with carla much would make a sense.
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21 Feb 2010
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yanogator
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It is definitely "much" because we are talking about the degree of need, not the volunteers or money. You clearly knew that intuitively, but didn �t realize it gramatically.
Bruce |
21 Feb 2010
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