What is the difference between "MUCH" and "MANY" in english?

Question

May be your answer will be....
what you can count called MANY
and what you can not count says MUCH...ok...
I did learn this thing .....so
why WE ALL ASKING IN SHOP "HOW MUCH IS THAT?"..
although money countable....

Answer 1

Many refers to a number of individual items, for example:

"The boy had many marbles."

Much refers to the quantity of one items.

"We ate too much food."

Answer 2

Use Many when you can count the individual units , There are many grains of sands on the beach. (You probably can't count them all, but they are countable, even if you only count 2 of them.

Use Much when it it an uncountable quantity. The is much water in the ocean.

By the way the corresponding words are Less and fewer. There a fewer grains of sand on the smaller beach, There is less water in the lake.

Answer 3

Money is not really countable. If you say your have "21 dollars", that doesn't necessarily mean you have 21 dollar bills (which would be countable), it means you have any collection of money totaling that.

If the price of something is 99 cents, you don't have to pay that in 99 individual coins (which would be countable).

Answer 4

Wow, never thought about that.
Relating to that phrase "How much is that?", I think that it has more to do with how something sounds than a literal definition. It's one of those things that every language has where a phrase makes no literal sense, but the common population understands exactly what it means.
Also take into consideration that the entire phrase is "How much does this cost?". Which kind of makes sense being that the definition of much is: "to a great extent". So I guess the translation would be "To what extent does this cost?".
(It's goofy. I know.)

Answer 5

MANY is described as an amont, EG:

"I have MANY pens"

MUCH is PART of another word to make a sentence that makes sence (see the example and you will understand) EG

"I know MUCH MORE than you do"

As you can see if you just had the word MUCH in a sentence it would make any sense EG:

"I know MUCH than you." You need a word after that such as "less,more" ect or the word MUCH cant be used.

Of course this answer can be re expanded but this can do for now...

Answer 6

Much is used for "uncountables" (Nouns) eg water, soil, love, effort, etc but Many is used for "countables"(Nouns) eg cats, books, people, etc. The question HOW MUCH IS THAT? refers to the COST which is an uncountable Noun. Hope this helps.

Answer 7

you're right...many is used when something countable...and the other way aroung for much

people say HOW MUCH IS THAT? because they're referring to MONEY which is not countable (HOW MUCH MONEY IS THAT?)

dollars are...so if you want to say HOW MANY (DOLLARS) IS THAT?

i think

Answer 8

Money is countable, but it is a collective amount. Collective nouns get "much" and individual ones get "many".

I have many pennies.
I don't have much money.

I don't have many baseball cards.
I don't have much of a collection of baseball cards.

Answer 9

particular English refers to England and particular British refers to large Britain. large Britain is the mainland of england, Scotland & Wales. uk includes the mainland and the encompassing islands as nicely as Northern eire. wish this facilitates

Answer 10

Much is used for things you really can't count, like water. You can count gallons or liters, but you can't count water.

Many is used for things you can count like jars of pickles or barrels of oil.

Answer 11

Thats a good ques. It might have started out as sarcasm to how expensive things are.I guess its so commonly used that people percive it as normal or correct.