Much
|
Much food
Much money
For example:
Did you buy much food?
We haven’t got much luggage.
How much money do you want?
A: Have you got any money?
Many
We use many for plural nouns:
Many
books
 |
Many
people
For example:
 |
 |
 |
 |
  |
A: How many photographs
did you take? B: I took some, but not many |
 |
A lot of is used for all types of noun:
We bought
a lot of
food.  |
We bought a lot of
books.  |
Paula hasn’t
got a lot
of free
time.  |
Did they ask
you a lot
of questions?   |
|
Note that we
say: |
There are a lot of trees / shops/ people |
| (singular verb) | (plural verb) |
| A lot of people speak English ( not ‘speaks’) |
 |
 |
 |
I
don’t drink
much
coffee / a lot of
coffee.
I drink a lot of coffee. (NOT I drink much coffee.)
Do you drink much coffee? |
 |
Yes, a lot. (NOT much) |
We use many and a lot of in all types of sentences.
Have you got many friends / a lot of friends?
 |
We haven’t got
many friends / a lot of
friends.
We’ve got many friends / a lot of friends.
Much and a lot without a noun:
Diane spoke to me, but she didn’t say
much.
Do you watch TV
much?
No, not
much.
(=not often)
We like films, so we go to the cinema a lot. (Not ‘much’ )