How many or how much

Learn first about count and non-count nouns.

• How many = for count nouns.
• How much = for non- count nouns.

How many apples do you have?
wrong: How much apples do you have?

• Many asks for numbers.
• Much asks for size, weight, volume, etc.

More Examples:

How many gifts did you receive this Christmas?
How many girls are there in the classroom?
How much water should I drink everyday?
How much sugar should I add?
How much flour is needed for the cake?

“How many” for non-count nouns

• We can also say how many for water, milk, butter etc.
• Just add glasses of, cups of, teaspoon, scoops etc.

How many glasses of water should I drink everyday?
How many scoops of ice-cream should I add to the smoothie?
How many cups of flour?

“How much glasses of water” is wrong.

Pattern:

• How many + Count N
• How much + Non C.
• How many + glasses of + Non C.

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Count and Non-count Nouns

Count vs. Non Count Nouns

Count nouns are of course, those that you can count.
You can attach a number before it.

Example:
8 apples
5 dogs
1 bicycle
19 pens

Non-count nouns cannot be counted.
You can’t place a number before it.
You can’t say 8 milk, 5 water, 2 sugar.

But we can say:

8 glasses of milk
5 gallons of water
2 cups of sugar

Usually liquids, melting solids, grains and powdered things are non-count.

More non-count noun examples:

a dish of ice-cream
a scoop of ice-cream
a cup of flour
3 bottle of ketchup
9 packs of tomato sauce
a slice of cheese
a slice of butter

How much or how many
A few or a little

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You, Your, You’re

You is a pronoun.

Your is a possessive adjective.

You’re is a contraction, which means “You are.”

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She or her…Possessive Adjective

For 1 subject:

I- my
he- his
she- her
you-your
it-its

For 2 or more:

we- our
they- their
you- your

Possessive adjectives (my, her, his) are those that show that a person owns something.

I am Fred and this is my dog.

He drives to school with his new car.

She is my sister and this is Mike, her husband.

You are alone. Where are your friends?   What is you’re?

We should clean our backyard.

They cleaned their classroom yesterday.

All of these sentences show ownership. Fred owns the dog, He owns the car so it is his car, We own the backyard so it is our backyard, and etc.

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Use MEANDER in a sentence

A meander is a winding form of a stream or path. But here is another way of using it.

This is a sentence I got from the book I’m reading by J. Maxwell.

Examine a letter, memo, or other items you’ve recently written. Are your sentences short and direct or do they MEANDER?

Meaning…your sentences are going in an aimless, unfocused direction. Like the winding shape of a river or stream.

Other sentence:

His life is meandering. He’s getting nowhere in life.
I guess my presentation has been meandering.

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