词组 | so much and so many |
释义 | Contents overview so much and so many587 so much and so many1the differenceThe difference between so much and so many is the same as between much and many (165). So much is used with singular (uncountable) nouns; so many is used with plurals.I had never seen so much food in my life.She had so many children that she didn't know what to do. (not … so much children …)We use so, not so much, to modify adjectives and adverbs (584.5).You're so beautiful. (not You're so much beautiful.)But so much is used before comparatives (207).She's so much more beautiful now.2so much/many without a nounWe can drop a noun after so much/many, if the meaning is clear.I can't eat all that meat – there's so much!I was expecting a few phone calls, but not so many.3so much as an adverbSo much can be used as an adverb.I wish you didn't smoke so much.4special structures with so muchWe can use not so much … as or not so much … but to make corrections and clarifications.It wasn't so much his appearance I liked as his personality.It's not so much that I don't want to go, but I just haven't got time.In negative and if-clauses, so much as can be used to mean 'even'.He didn't so much as say thank you, after all we'd done for him.If he so much as looks at another woman, I'll kill him.Previous Next |
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