How to use much in a sentence. Much is now generally used with uncountable nouns The equivalent used with countable nouns is many In positive contexts, much is widely avoided I have a lot of money instead of i have much money There are some exceptions to this, however
I have much hope for the future A lot of these cases are emotive transitive verbs and nouns I have much need for a new assistant A large amount or to a large degree A far larger amount of something than you want or need… A large quantity or amount
Use the adjective much to mean a lot or a large amount. if you don't get much sleep the night before a big test, you don't get a lot If you get too much sleep, you may sleep through your alarm and miss the test. A great quantity, measure, or degree He owed much of his success to his family A great, important, or notable thing or matter He isn't much to look at.
Discover everything about the word much in english Significant, important, major, big, historic, substantial, meaningful, eventful Little, small, slight, trivial, minor, insignificant, unimportant, negligible In questions, 'much' is used to ask about the amount of something We use the quantifiers much, many, a lot of, lots of to talk about quantities, amounts and degree We can use them with a noun (as a determiner) or without a noun (as a pronoun).
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