"Much" e "Many" são usados para relatar quantidades.
"Much" => É usado com substantivos incontáveis.
Ex: They don't have much food. (Eles não têm muita comida.)
"Many" => É usado com substantivos contáveis.
Ex: There are many movie theaters in town. (Há muitos cinemas na cidade.)
Nós temos também "A lot of" que é usado no singular/plural, com substantivos contáveis ou incontáveis, portanto “a loto of” pode substituir tanto "much" quanto "many".
Ex: They don't have much patience.
They don't have a lot of patience.
There are many people in São Paulo.
There are a lot of people in São Paulo.
Algumas Regras importantes:
1. “Much” acompanha substantivos que se apresentam sempre no singular.
Esses substantivos são chamados, em inglês, uncoutable nouns e podem ser:
(a) substantivos abstratos
much patience / much time/ much trouble
(b) substantivos que se referem a substâncias
much bread / much wine / much money
2. “Many” acompanha substantivos quando usados no plural, countable nouns:
Many friends/ many books/ many dollars
3. Much e many são usados, de preferência, em frases negativas e interrogativas.
Em frases afirmativas usa-se, geralmente, “a lot of” que se traduz por muito, muitos, uma porção de.
A lot of pode, também, ser usado em frases interrogativas.
Interrogative sentences:
Does he have much problem?
Does he have a lot of Problem?
Does she save many dollars?
Does she save a lot of dollars?
Negative sentences:
He doesn’t have much problem.
He doesn’t have a lot of Problem.
She doesn’t save many dollars.
She doesn’t save a lot of dollars.
“A lot of” se apresenta sem a preposição “of” quando se refere a um substantivo já mencionado.
=> Do you have many books about that?
Yes, a lot.
Exercícios:
Use many or much:
01. There aren't __________________ people in this hospital.
02. Do you have __________________ money?
03. Sandy needs too __________________blood.
04. They study __________________ parts of the body every day.
05. He has__________________ teeth.
06. We have __________________ work every day.
07. I have__________________ time to study.
08. __________________ people don’t study.
09. The baby drinks __________________ milk.
10. There are __________________ eggs in the fridge.
11. I answer__________________ questions.
12. She does __________________ exercise.
13. We have __________________ friends.
14. There are __________________ letters for me.
15. Charles has __________________ oranges.
16. There is __________________ beer on the table.
17. Today there is __________________ water on the Earth.
Lembre-se: “A lot of” pode ser usado em todas as sentenças acima
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