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2015-07-15 · 첨삭 강사 Nina

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2. Few days ago I checked up my body. >> Few days, I had a general check-up. A few days ago, I got a medical check up. 5. Do you want to me anymore? >> Do you want to know me more? Do you want to know about me any more? HOMEWORK FOR TODAY: HOW MUCH vs HOW MANY 1. __how many_____ lemonade have we got? We've got only one bottle. 2. __how many_____ bottles are there? Three. 3. _how much______ meat is there? We have got two steaks. 4. __how many_____ bread have we got? Two loaves. 5. _how______ many children have they got? Two girls and a boy. 6. ____how much__ milk have we got? About one and a half liters.

강사 첨삭

Hello Jane ^^

Thanks for sending this in today.

I am glad that you are doing your homework.


Many modifies things that can be counted (i.e., count nouns). Much modifies things that can’t be counted (i.e., mass nouns). In other words, many tends to modify plural nouns, and much tends to modify singular nouns. For example, we write many doctors, many stars, and many dollars because these nouns are countable, and we write much knowledge, much light, and much money because these nouns aren’t countable (in their main senses).

There is little controversy around the many-much distinction, and it is borne out with only rare exceptions. You might occasionally encounter a much dollars or a much people, but few English speakers use such constructions out of habit.

The distinction can be tricky in a few rare instances. For example, while many thanks is more common than much thanks, the latter appears fairly often because we can think of this thanks as a mass noun (synonymous with gratitude) that takes a plural form by convention. Of course we can also think of thanks as an abbreviation of the plural noun thank-yous, in which case many is appropriate. And then there are singular mass nouns that sound plural. Kudos, for one, is a mass noun that happens to end in s, so the phrase many kudos is more common (on the web) than much kudos even though the latter is more logical.


2. Few days ago I checked up my body.
>> Few days, I had a general check-up. 
( I checked your evaluation page, but I didn\'t miss the word \"ago\". ^.^ Kindly check it again. ^^)

A few days ago, I got a medical check up.
( correct! OR You can also say: I had a medical check-up few days ago. ^^)


5. Do you want to me anymore?
>> Do you want to know me more?

Do you want to know about me any more?

(Do you want to know me more? OR: Do you want to know more about me? )


HOMEWORK FOR TODAY:
HOW MUCH vs HOW MANY

1. __how many_____ lemonade have we got?
We\'ve got only one bottle.
>> HOW MUCH
2. __how many_____ bottles are there?
Three.
>> correct
3. _how much______ meat is there?
We have got two steaks.
>> correct 
4. __how many_____ bread have we got?
Two loaves.
>> correct 
5. _how______ many children have they got?
Two girls and a boy.
>> correct 
6. ____how much__ milk have we got?
About one and a half liters.

>> correct

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