Can anyone please answer my question?

Hello,

can anyone please answer the question below.

Which one is correct?

How beautiful is she?

or

How much beautiful is she?

or

How young are you?
How much young are you?


Thanks in advance

How much beautiful is she? She is beautiful very much.
How much young are you? I am very much young.

All your sentences are fine.

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Originally Posted by corum

How much beautiful is she? She is beautiful very much.
How much young are you? I am very much young.

All your sentences are fine.

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Many thanks for your reply. I appreciate your help.

Sorry, but the construction with 'how much' are not correct English.

The correct versions are:

'How beautiful is she?' and 'How young are you?'

The second sentence is unusual; people normally ask, "How old are you?"

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Originally Posted by Johnson_F

[FONT=Times New Roman]Sorry, but the construction with 'how much' are not correct English.

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How much beautiful? Very much beautiful. Beautiful very much.

Please explain what your problem is with this.

The only problem that I see is that they are not correct English.

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Originally Posted by Johnson_F

The only problem that I see is that they are not correct English.

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Empirical approach aside, which rule in grammar is violated? It does not strike me as correct is hardly convincing.

'How much' is not normally used before adjectives and adverbs.

"How rich is he?"
"How much money has he?"

I am happy you said "normally" and not "never". ;-)

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Originally Posted by corum

I am happy you said "normally" and not "never". ;-)

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Corum, "How much beautiful is she" may be grammatically correct but a native English speaker would never say or write it, (except of course to point out that it's incorrect, as I have just done). I think that the OP probably wanted to know the correct English usage, rather than the hypothetical grammatical correctness.