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You use m___ in the expression how much to ask questions about amounts or degrees, and also in reported clauses and statements to give information about the amount or degree of something.You use much in the expression how much to ask questions about amounts or degrees, and also in reported clauses and statements to give information about the amount or degree of something.
How much money can I afford?
See just how much fat and cholesterol you're eating.
I'm always very aware of how much work there is still to be done.
Krock told this story to McCauley and asked him how much truth there was in it.
She knows how much this upsets me but she persists in doing it.
How much cooler will it get?
How much do you earn?
Greg made a vague gesture to indicate how much.
word much
full-definition
adverb
You use much to indicate the great intensity, extent, or degree of something such as an action, feeling, or change . Much is usually used with 'so', 'too', and 'very', and in negative clauses with this meaning .
She laughs too much.
Thank you very much.
My hairstyle hasn't changed much since I was five.
If something does not happen much, it does not happen very often.
He said that his father never talked much about the war.
Gwen had not seen her Daddy all that much, because mostly he worked on the ships.
Do you get back East much?
You use much in front of 'too' or comparative adjectives and adverbs in order to emphasize that there is a large amount of a particular quality .
The skin is much too delicate.
You'd be so much happier if you could see yourself the way I see you.
He had written to The Times and then, much more unacceptably, allowed himself to be interviewed on television.
If one thing is much the same as another thing, it is very similar to it.
The day ended much as it began.
Sheep's milk is produced in much the same way as goat's milk.
You use much in expressions such as not much, not very much, and too much when replying to questions about amounts.
'Can you hear it where you live?' He shook his head. 'Not much.'
'Do you care very much about what other people think?'—'Too much.'
determiner
You use much to indicate that you are referring to a large amount of a substance or thing.
They are grown on the hillsides in full sun, without much water.
His job was to assess how much aid was required.
People are happy because there's not much crime here.
Furniture is so bulky, it takes so much room.
...eating too much and drinking too much.
There was so much to talk about.
Much of the time we do not notice that we are solving problems.
She does much of her work abroad.
Her father had been a merchant seaman, absent for much of her childhood.
You use much in the expression how much to ask questions about amounts or degrees, and also in reported clauses and statements to give information about the amount or degree of something.
How much money can I afford?
See just how much fat and cholesterol you're eating.
I'm always very aware of how much work there is still to be done.
Krock told this story to McCauley and asked him how much truth there was in it.
She knows how much this upsets me but she persists in doing it.
How much cooler will it get?
How much do you earn?
Greg made a vague gesture to indicate how much.
You use much in the expression as much when you are comparing amounts.
I shall try, with as much patience as is possible, to explain yet again.
Their aim will be to produce as much milk as possible.
With an 18-watt fluorescent bulb you get as much light but use 75% less electricity.
other
quantifier
If you do not see much of someone, you do not see them very often.
I don't see much of Tony nowadays.
We won't be seeing much of each other for a while.
phrase
You use much as to introduce a fact which makes something else you have just said or will say rather surprising .
Much as they'd like to go home, they're resigned to staying until the end of the year.
inflections lots
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