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She is not much appreciated how much time that I've thought about her sinceI fell in love with her. She is not much good in anything except looking for discount stuff. Are they OK?Thank you

Likeguslee · Accepted Answer

She hasn’t appreciated much the fact that I have spent so much time thinking about her since I fell in love with her.

She is not much good in anything except looking for discount merchandise.

Inchoateknowledge · Answer

Neither of the sentences is correct.
The first one is ill-structured, thus incoherent. "She is not much appreciated," means they do not appreciate her; you did not mean it.
It should read like this: She does not particularly appreciate how much I have thought about her since I have been in love with her.
As regards your second sentence, 'good in' should be 'good at'. Also, I would omit 'stuff' -- it is not needed there, besides, it lends your writing an inelegant, unrefined style.

Likeguslee · Answer

To be good at and to be good in are often interchangeable, and there is no easy rule to follow. In simple statements, the standard form appears to be good at as in 'I'm not very good at football'.

However, in this following sentence, to be good in seems more likely than to be good at, i.e:

'He was the best in the class in French, but in mathematics and chemistry he was not so good.'

This is perhaps because with other expressions or verbs denoting assessment or ranking, the preposition in would be required, thus:

'In pharmacology she obtained/scored/gained/attained the highest marks.'

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