Before doing this activity you may need to read the text you will find at the end
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| Gapped text | Items |
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| Do you like it ______________________? We can buy it if you want | much / many |
| When I go to a party I never drink ______________________ | many / a lot |
| We don't travel ______________________ | many / much |
| I couldn't see any lions today. Did you see ______________________? | much / many |
| Thanks for the comic, I have ______________________, but I like this one ______________________ | a lot / much / very much |
| I need more milk, have you got ______________________? | many / much |
| Here, you can take one, I have ______________________ | much / many |
| It didn't rain ______________________ yesterday, just for half an hour | much / many |
| Thank you very ______________________ | many / a lot / much |
| - Are you tired? - ______________________ | A lot / Many |
| Have you got any pencils? - Yes, ______________________ | many / much |
| I love you ______________________ | many / much / very much |
| Do you have any friends here? - Yes, ______________________ | much / many |
| We went shopping but we didn't spend ______________________ | many / much |
| Yes, it's a very nice sweater but I'm not going to buy it, I have ______________________ | much / lots |
| Can you give me more photocopies? I don't have ______________________ | many / much |
| I'm tired of working, this is really ______________________ | much / many / a lot |
| Mary was looking for poppies and she found ______________________ | a lot / much |
| Does she come to visit ______________________? | many / a lot |
| I don't need pasta, I have ______________________ | many / much / very much |
MUCH/MANY WITHOUT A NOUN
We can drop the noun after much or many if the meaning is clear:
We don't eat much (= much food)
Do you have books? - Not many (many books)
Have you got many friends?
- Yes, I've got many (= many friends)
also: I've got a lot / I've got lots
Do you drink much tea?
- Yes, very much / a lot / lots
The rules for the use of MUCH and MANY are the same as always:
MUCH for singular nouns, MANY for plurals, both used in negatives and questions.
Many is used in affirmatives (but not often) and MUCH can't (but we can use "very much").
A LOT and LOTS can be used in all situations.
MUCH AS ADVERB
We can use MUCH as an adverb
- I like tea but I don't drink much (= much tea)
- I love you very much (very much explains how I love you, so it is an adverb)
Examples of much as an adverb (to explain the action):
- I don't work much now, I'm trying to relax (how I work)
- I'm much taller than you (how I am)
- I like her very much (how I like her)
- Thank you very much (how I thank you)
As usual, we can also say A LOT:
- I don't work a lot
- I'm a lot taller than you
- I like her a lot
- Thanks a lot
