Like the adjective and pronoun many, many a/an... is used to indicate a large number of something. However, it takes a singular noun, which can be followed by a singular verb. Here are some examples: It remained a mystery for many a year. [=for many years] I've been there many a time. [=many times] Many a politician has promised to make changes.

2015年6月9日 · Many is for items: "I have many cans of beer," much is for amounts: "I have so much beer". Or in your example you could go either way: "I have very many dollar bills" OR "I have very much money" are both correct ways of saying the same thing. –

2019年6月14日 · "Many more" can be used of all the objects are of the same type, forming a list, such as in. If you go on a safari tour you will see see wild animals: zebras, giraffes, elephants, and many more. But if the intent is to intensify the word "more", then you should use "much": This hotel is in an excellent location.

It was quite commonly used in everyday speech in the greater Philadelphia area by people whose families were originally from Ireland, especially if both parents were from families of Irish descent and hadn't lost many of their speech patterns due to "melting pot" marriages, Irish and German, say, or Irish and Italian.

No, because it also implies variation or distinction at the same time. Range is a subset of many, similar to the fact that all ducks are birds, but not all birds are ducks. For example, an opinion survey is often said to collect a range of opinions. Not only is this many opinions, but it's also many different opinions.

The ngram is meaningless. You have formed a faulty pair of comparands. Take a look at the citations for "how many billion". The majority are of the form "How many billion dollars more did..." The plural form would never be used in this context. (Note the question mark in the examples in my comment.) –

2016年7月23日 · Every time I hear someone use "multiple" when "many" is the right word, I want to throw up. It's that bad for those of us who speak English correctly. 'Multiple' means 'containing many subparts'. A multiple homicide is a killing that involves many individual homicides. A multiple choice question is a question consisting of several possible answers.

2024年2月12日 · But always remember. You use grammar to make meaning. Never learn by starting with a grammatical construction and trying to think how to use it. Always start with what you want to communicate and choose the best grammar to express that. Here the "as many as" construction is not the best. –

Both "many" and "much" can be used, depending on context. This is because "fish" can be countable or uncountable, depending on the definition in use. Refer to these definitions (from Oxford Dictionaries): fish NOUN. 1 A limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal with gills and fins living wholly in water: "the huge lakes are now devoid of fish"

2017年7月9日 · "There are as many X as Y", that means that the number of X's is the same as the number of Y's. For example, "There are as many cell phones as people in our house" means that the number of cell phones is equal to the number of people. "There are Z times as many X as Y" means that the number of X's is equal to Z times the number of Y's.