Too much usage
As I have been taught too much is only being used when there is an adjective plus a noun. But in the following sentence it is being used before an adjective. If academic is being considered as a too much can't be correct because too much is used before Uncountable nouns and academic is a count noun name.
Could you help me figure it out?
The occupational psychologist is often regarded by industrialists as being too much academic to serve any practical purpose.
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" will often be a mistake, but, unusually, in certain contexts, it can be used correctly (in my opinion), as in your sentence. This unusual pattern is used in formal writing and with more "complicated" or abstract adjectives, not with short, simple words in everyday contexts. For example, one would never say "It's too much cold to swim today".
- " will often be a mistake, but, unusually, in certain contexts, it can be used correctly (in my opinion), as in your sentence.
- This unusual pattern is used in formal writing and with more "complicated" or abstract adjectives, not with short, simple words in everyday contexts.
- For example, one would never say "It's too much cold to swim today".
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"too much + adj." will often be a mistake, but, unusually, in certain contexts, it can be used correctly (in my opinion), as in your sentence. This unusual pattern is used in formal writing and with more "complicated" or abstract adjectives, not with short, simple words in everyday contexts. For example, one would never say "It's too much cold to swim today".
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