Much or A Lot 2

She doesn't have ___ free time


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ingliscarabao

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wow! there's so much to learn here.

how about this one...
me and my friends were playing cards. the moment I laid my cards, I shouted "I win!". He told me that it should be "I won!". Please enlighten me.

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what is diffrent between A lot of and lots of ?
 

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wow! there's so much to learn here.

how about this one...
me and my friends were playing cards. the moment I laid my cards, I shouted "I win!". He told me that it should be "I won!". Please enlighten me.

thanks
Your friend is a sore loser.
;-)
 

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Q: What is the difference between a lot of and lots of?
A: Not much.

:)
 

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A careful speaker will say "My friends and I were playing cards" but "Me and my friends...." (Ugh!) is often used.

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A careful speaker will say "My friends and I were playing cards" but "Me and my friends...." (Ugh!) is often used.

~R

Should it be "a careful speaker will not say ... but ... ," or am I wrong? :roll:
 

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i didn't under stand ! .. shall he say " i won " or " i win " ??? :)
 

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Say "I won!" or "I win!" Both are used.

:)
 

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I remember that a lot of = lots of. The only difference is what word you like using.
Ps: i guess so.
 

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Much is used for uncountable nouns. Time is an uncountable noun. We cannot say times. So we use much. (for countable nouns we use many)

A lot of is used for both countable and uncountable nouns.

So, we can use both of them. Am I right?
 

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Much is used for uncountable nouns. Time is an uncountable noun. We cannot say times. So we use much. (for countable nouns we use many)

A lot of is used for both countable and uncountable nouns.

So, we can use both of them. Am I right?
Yes. you are right. Say:
She doesn't have much free time.

Or:

She doesn't have a lot of free time.
:)
 

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"She doesn't have much free time"

I think this is right, am not much confidant in it. might be this is correct answer. Please tell me the right answer and give me suggestion for it because am a beginner to this language.

and please give me some of the useful tutorial links for me , it might be very useful for my studies.
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am not sure about the answer, but i think it is much.:?:
 

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Say:
She doesn't have much free time

or

She doesn't have a lot of free time
:)
 

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?. Sorry, don't understand the question. A little more information please, then maybe we can help.
 

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Re: Much , Many , A lot of

hi,

I have a question about Much,Many & A lot of :

Much is used for uncountable nouns that sentence is negative ; and

A lot of is used for both countable and uncountable nouns,

in both positive and negative sentence.


and many is used for countable nouns ,

in both positive and negative sentence.



am i right ?

Please tell me the right answer .

Thanks .
 

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Re: Much , Many , A lot of

I, a native [U.S.] speaker, would say "I have a lot of problems," and "We got a lot of snow." And I would say ""I haven't got many problems," and "We didn't get much snow." But there is pretty wide variation in this area, so if you can, ask more speakers.
 
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