Name: MUCH or MANY or A LOT OF??? Countable and Uncountable Nouns!
Uploaded: 2017-05-09T06:28:57.000Z
Duration: 2 min 44 s
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Hi guys, today we're going to talk about something that

'many' of my students get wrong 'a lot' of the time.

This is the difference between 'much', 'many', 'a lot of' and 'lots of'.

Well firstly these two mean the same thing

These ones, however, can not be used for the same nouns

and I'm going to explain how you use them right now!

Well these refer to something that can't be counted

and they don't normally have a plural form.

If I'm in a restaurant and I ask for two coffees.

Well I'm really asking for two cups of coffee.

That's why I can say two coffEES, with the plural.

Well we really know that I'm asking for two sachets

So, on their own we can't use them as plurals.

So, the uncountable nouns go with 'much'.

And 'much' is something we tend to use in the

We can use this affirmative, negative and interrogative.

much, especially, can sound incredibly formal.

So instead of saying 'much' in the affirmative, I would use

I have a lot of water, I have lots of water.

Many, on the other hand, is more widely used with the affirmative.

They're more or less the same in this case.

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