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How Many or How Much usage in English

How Many or How Much usage in English.

It is very easy to distinguish MUCH and MANY. The first thing you have to do is to recognize what are countable nouns and what are uncountabe nouns. MUCH is always used with UNCOUNTABLE NOUN. MANY is used with COUNTABLE NOUN in plural.

For example:
I have many books.
There was much discussion about the reasons for the failure.

Remember these rules:

  • We use “How many” for questions using countable or plural objects Example: How many books do you have?
  • We use “How much” for questions using a non-countable or singular object Example: How much juice is left?
  • We use “How much” for questions asking about ONE object Example: How much does the book cost?
  • Most plurals are formed by adding “-s” to the noun or object Example: book -s = books. Some of the more important exceptions include: man – men, child – children, person – people, woman – women

    • Simple, isn’t it? :)

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