much vs many
Definitions
adverb
- to a very great degree or extent
- to a great degree or extent
- (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
- frequently or in great quantities
- very
noun
- a great amount or extent
adjective
- (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent
Examples
Mix together with as few stirs as possible - mixing too much will make the muffins too dense and heavy.
Secondly, he makes the team too much money, raking in ticket and merchandise sales like crazy.
It bothered me a little that I didn't have a pickup, and I couldn't see doing much off road driving with my Mustang fastback.
Definitions
adjective
- a quantifier that can be used with count nouns and is often preceded by `as' or `too' or `so' or `that'; amounting to a large but indefinite number
Examples
Sodium thiopental was used by most U.S. states as part of a lethal injection combination, but many have switched to an alternative drug called pentobarbital amid an ongoing shortage.
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Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails.
