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Vincent Teo Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

gave some bananas

Can I say,

We saw many monkeys there. Some of my friends gave some bananas.
  

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Vincent Teo We saw many/ a lot of monkeys there. Some /A few of my friends gave them/the monkeys some bananas. - In an affirmative sentence, it would be more common to use "a lot of" rather than "many".

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  • Vincent Teo We saw many/ a lot of monkeys there.
  • Some /A few of my friends gave them/the monkeys some bananas.
  • - In an affirmative sentence, it would be more common to use "a lot of" rather than "many".
  • - In order to avoid using the word "some" twice in your second sentence, you could replace "some" with "a few", for example.
  • - You must include an indirect object in your second sentence.
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Vincent TeoWe saw many/a lot of monkeys there. Some/A few of my friends gave them/the monkeys some bananas.
- In an affirmative sentence, it would be more common to use "a lot of" rather than "many".

- In order to av
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Thanks. Can I say,

We saw many monkeys of various kinds. We also saw many interesting rare plants.
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Yes, you can say those.
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