[Grammar] Can anyone please answer my question?

[Ever Student]

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

 

[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.

 

[Ever Student]

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.

Many thanks for your reply. I appreciate your help.

 

[Johnson_F]

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?"

 

[corum]

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

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

Please explain what your problem is with this.

 

[Johnson_F]

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

 

[corum]

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

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

 

[Johnson_F]

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

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

 

[corum]

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

 

[bhaisahab]

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

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.

 

[corum]

Which one is correct?

Corum, "How much beautiful is she" may be grammatically correct

:up:

but a native English speaker would never say or write it

"(S)eldom if ever" in place of "never" would be closer to the mark. Never say never. ;-) I see your point here and I agree. ;-)

 

[Johnson_F]

I used the word 'normally' because 'how much' can be used with comparative forms.

"How much richer is he now than he was last year?"

 

[corum]

He is very much rich.
or
He is very much richer.

Both are feasible, if the first is a tad constrained.

I have to love you and leave you now. Thanks for the conversation.

Best wishes: C.

 

[lauralie2]

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

They are unacceptable in my dialect of English as well, but apparently acceptable in others. :roll:

 

[Johnson_F]

I was interested to read an earlier comment, ' "How much beautiful is she" may be grammatically correct', as it is not acceptable in my dialect, either.
In which dialects and/or contexts might it be acceptable?

 

[Raymott]

I used the word 'normally' because 'how much' can be used with comparative forms.

"How much richer is he now than he was last year?"

Yes, but 'beautiful' is not a comparative. There's nothing wrong with "How much more beautiful is she (than her sister; than she was a few years ago).
But "How much beautiful is she" is not standard English, and I don't think it's doing learners any favours to claim that it is.

 

[corum]

She is beautiful. How much? Very much.
She is beautiful very much. :tick:
How much is she beautiful? Very much! :tick:

But "How much beautiful is she" is not standard English

Please explain why. Thanks!

and I don't think it's doing learners any favours to claim that it is.

Let us be more objective.

 

[bhaisahab]

Please explain why. Thanks!



Let us be more objective.

She is beautiful. How much? Very much.
She is beautiful very much. :tick:
How much is she beautiful? Very much! :tick:
Both of these are non-standard English, (I would say incorrect English). "Much" is, in addition, completely redundant in both of those examples.
"She is beautiful". "How beautiful?" "Very beautiful".
"She is very beautiful".
"How beautiful is she?" Very beautiful".

 

[corum]

?He is very appreciated.
He is very beautiful. :tick:

He is very much appreciated. :tick:
?He is very much beautiful.

He is highly appreciated. :tick:
He is highly beautiful. :cross:

English is interesting, is it not?

 

[corum]

Whereas gradable adjectives and adverbs are intensified by very: verbs are intensified by other intensifying adverbs such as much and well, which themselves are often premodified by very, eg: very much, very well.

Quirk et. al.

?He is very appreciated.

means the participle has verbal force rather than an adjectival force.

I was wrong in stating that
He is very much beautiful.
is :tick:
This is not standard English for reasons specified in this post.
I apologize.