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Norisuke Posted 21 years ago
Grammar

"Thank you much"?

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00I wonder if "Thank you much." sounds OK or not. 02br
00I've heard "Thank you." "Thank you very much." but "Thank you much." 02br
00Does "much" following "Thank you" goes without "very"? 02br
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00Thank you very much for your help!! 0-
  

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0 Welcome norisuke. " is not correct English. 02br 02br 00You can say "thank you very much" or even "thank you so much".

— Abbie1948

  • 0 Welcome norisuke.
  • " is not correct English.
  • 02br 02br 00You can say "thank you very much" or even "thank you so much".
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0 Welcome norisuke. 02br
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00"Thank you much." is not correct English. 02br
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00You can say "thank you very much" or even "thank you so much". 0-
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0 Thank you very much for your quick reply, abbie. 02br
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00I would appreciate if you could explain why "Thank you much." is not correct English. 02br
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00Thank you again for your great help. 0-
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0 I agree that it's not correct, but you do hear people say "Thank you much," at least in America. I might even say it myself, in an informal situation - I guess you could call it a sort of "folksy" sounding slang. --khoff 0-
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0 Hmmm. I occasionally say "Thanks much", leaving out the "very", but not "Thank you much", also leaving out the "very". Maybe that's because "thanks" already is more informal than "thank you", so, to me, being a little sloppy is more OK with "thanks" than with "thank you"! 02br
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0 norisuke, 02br
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00"much" is not correct English in "Thank you much" because "much", used by itself as an adverb of degree, is restricted to non-assertive contexts. In assertive contexts it must be accompanied by "very", forming "very much". 02br
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00Therefore, in these assertions (with the usual meaning of '*' = not correct): 02br
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0 Thanks muchly Jim! I just knew someone would come up with a logical grammatical explanation so i didn't have to!![K] 0-
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0 To CalifJim, 02br
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00How about the sentence, "I much admire his work." Is it correct English or not? 0-
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0 Sorry for answering ... a question directed to Califjim... 02br
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00It is wrong. "I much admire his work" is wrong. much has to be preceeded by very. The reason being the same... adverb of degree in an assertive sentence...And the sentence has to be " I admire his work very much". "I very much admire his work" is also wrong. 0-
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0 To anita a, 02br
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00Re: "I very much admire his work" is also wrong. 02br
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00It would be advisable to first type "I very much admire.." in the Google search engine, take a close look at the 3 million+ results and then assert that the above sentence is wrong. 02br
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00As for the usage, "I much admire..", I qu
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0 Hello guys 02br
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00One of my dictionaries (Genius E-J dictionary) explains the adverbial use of "much" as follows: 02br
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00[1] Adverbial "much" is usually used in negative or interrogative sentences. 02br
00 (EX) I don't like the picture much =I don't much like the picture. 02br
00 (EX) Do you see him much? 02br
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