watching too much TV vs watching TV too much

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01cite10Kilimanjaro12cite11b10Are you watching TV too much?12br
10Are you watching too much TV?12br
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12b10I don't think the two sentences aim to mean the same things. What do you think? It's interesting in the second sentence to see "too much" modifying a count-noun,"TV", but somehow tha

0 I think the explanation lies in the fact that 01i00much02i00 can be both 01i00adverb02i00 (1st) and 01i00adjective02i00 (2nd). 0-

0Thank you, Marius.02br
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00I think a rule is that 01i00too much02i00 when used as an adjective can only modify uncountable nouns. Is 01i00TV02i00 here an uncountable noun or a countable noun?02br
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00 watching too much TV0-

0Hi,02br
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00I checked a dictionary and it noted that TV is a variable noun, so my guess is that 01i00too much02i00 is used to refer to that word in general (as an uncountable noun), not a type (as a countable noun?). 0-

0 TV seems to me uncountable here. 0-

0 In 'watching too much TV', the word 'TV' is used as an uncountable noun. 0-

0 Is it better to say, 'Are you watching TV too often'? 0-

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01cite10Yoong Liat12cite10Is it better to say, 'Are you watching TV too often'?12blockquote

10They're different:02br
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00 often: frequency02br
00 much: amount, volume, total time 02br
00 of watching02br
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00 Both OK. 0-