much vs many

Definitions

adverb

1. to a very great degree or extent
2. to a great degree or extent
3. (degree adverb used before a noun phrase) for all practical purposes but not completely
4. frequently or in great quantities
5. very

noun

1. a great amount or extent

adjective

1. (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.

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.

There is so much to enjoy here that it is a pity that a good deal of the information imparted is demonstrably wrong.

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Definitions

adjective

1. 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

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We had a gam one day, on this voyage, with a Yankee whale-ship, and a first-rate gam it was, for, as the Yankee had gammed three days before with another English ship, we got a lot of news second-hand; and, as we had not seen a new face for many months, we felt towards those Yankees like brothers, and swallowed all they had to tell us like men starving for news.

We laugh a lot and he has many anecdotes, funny, funny stories.

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