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Help! When do I use many and much? less and fewer?

 

Many is used for countable nouns. Much is used with uncountable things.  For example, "I have many friends and much time."

 

 

We also found that few and little  work in the same way. Few is used to quantify countable nouns, and little for uncountable. "I have few friends and little time."

 

The comparative and superlative forms for few are fewer, fewest. The forms for little are less, least.  So, the same rule as above applies -- fewer + countable; fewer items and less + uncountable; less money.

 

Which resources did you use to find the solution? Were the resources useful?

Name of Grammar Resource Comments

Would you recommend

this resource? (Yes or No)

Understanding and Using English Grammar

by Betty Schrampfer Azar

Very clear table to get answer quickly Maybe
The Quantifiers from Online Grammar by EduFind Easy to find topics and understandable  YES

Count and Non-count Nouns

from The OWL at Purdue

Step by step instructions and explanation Yes
     
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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