You haven’t said much, Joan – what do you think? How much is a bacon egg and cheese mcgriddle would like for visiting my friends.

Phew, that ring looks like it set you back. You’ve drunk much too much to drive. I can’t take care of six children at my age – it’s too much. When he saw all the food on my plate, he said “Hungry much? How much liquid do you think this bottle contains?

She runs much faster than he does. She looks much younger with her new hairstyle, don’t you think? It was much further to the town centre than I remembered. Learn the words you need to communicate with confidence. We use the quantifiers much, many, a lot of, lots of to talk about quantities, amounts and degree. We use a lot of and lots of in informal styles.

Lots of is more informal than a lot of. When we use much and many in negative questions, we are usually expecting that a large quantity of something isn’t there. When we use a lot of and lots of in negative questions, we are usually expecting a large quantity of something. We often use too before much and many. We use much, a lot, lots and a good deal as adverbs to refer to frequency, quantity and degree. We use much in questions and negative clauses to talk about degrees of something. Mark’s got too much work to do.

I don’t have much money to spend. It doesn’t matter that much to me whether we go or not. Note: Much is used with singular, uncountable nouns. How much sugar do you take in your coffee? The two schools are much the same. She is so much like her mother. There’s not much to do around here.

He’s still recovering, and sleeps much of the time. A much higher standard of safety is therefore required for mefloquine prophylaxis than for drugs given to treat serious diseases. Many scientific problems could be solved much more readily with the cooperation and scientific insight of scientists from developing regions. Second, there is much to be said for the application of similar methods to investigations of large-scale, hemisphere-related patterns of species interactions. The number of problem-solving cognitive tasks you can do may well depend on how much frontal lobe volume you have and how it is organised.

To compare the heritability of the various networks would take a much larger study. The aim is provide as much flexibility as possible in the presentation of the data. Financial statements today focus on reliability much more than on relevance. We have seen much by this time of where the tension can arise.

Be it said in favour of what follows that it admits as much. At first sight, the suggestion seems not so much a paradox as a bad joke. On the other hand, the notion of an ‘organic community’, even though based on history, is itself much closer to pastoral feeling. The wood serves only as a makeshift refuge, somewhere where they are not so much free as at bay. Quite how much this took him by surprise is hard to tell now but, on the face of it, it should not have done. The past served as a tool for rejecting the present as much as to feed nostalgia.

These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of much? Více o problému počitatelnosti u podstatných jmen naleznete v samostatném článku. Používá se jak u počitatelných tak nepočitatelných podstatných jmen. Neobjevuje se ale ve velmi formální angličtině. I’ve got a lot of money.