form
before countable nouns | many | a large amount | I didn’t eat many sweets. |
a lot of | She ate a lot of apples. | ||
before uncountable nouns | much | Did you eat much cheese? | |
a lot of | I ate a lot of food. |
use
- English normally uses many and much in negative (+ not/n’t) and interrogative (+?) sentences.
- English normally uses a lot of / lots of in affirmative sentences (an affirmative sentence is not a question and does not contain not/n’t)
exercises
much and many
- exercise 1: choose much or many
- exercise 2: choose much or many
- exercise 3: choose much or many
- exercise 4: choose much or many in interrogative sentences
- exercise 5: choose much or many in interrogative and negative sentences
- exercise 6: choose much or many
- exercise 7: fill in much or many
much, many and a lot of
- exercise 1: choose much, many or a lot of
- exercise 2: choose much, many or a lot of
- exercise 3: choose much, many or a lot of
- exercise 4: choose much, many or a lot of
- exercise 5: choose much, many or a lot of