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Napoleonponapa Posted 17 years ago
Vocabulary

What is the function of "much"

1) I don't have much money. ( is it Adj?)

2) I don't have money much. ( is it Adv?)

3) I don't have much of money. ( what is it here?

Which one is grammatically correct? what is the function of "much " in each case?

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Hi I don't have much money. - This is the only correct sentence. Here it is a 'quantity word' - meaning 'a large amount of'

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  • Hi I don't have much money.
  • - This is the only correct sentence.
  • Here it is a 'quantity word' - meaning 'a large amount of'
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Hi

I don't have much money. - This is the only correct sentence.

Here it is a 'quantity word' - meaning 'a large amount of'
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The second sentence could be OK in context (OK in this context means barely acceptable):

I don't have money much. Every time I get paid I go shopping and spend it all.

Better:

I don't have money often. Every time I get paid I go shopping and spend it all.

In this sense it is how often not the quantity of money. Therefore, it is an adverb. In the first sen
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Also, you can say

I don't have much of a choice/a family/a response

it appears that "much of" doesn't work very well with uncountables
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