| Former-Teacher | Date: Monday, 06.12.2010, 09:16 | Message # 1 |
 Dean
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| Dear Netters! When you describe quantities and need to intensify comparions, pay attention to whether the used nouns are countable or uncountable.
The rule is: many more books, many more cars, many more people, etc.
But: much more time, much more money, much more attention, etc.
So, when you say 'much more books' or 'many more money', this is a bad grammar mistake.
The problem is in what is called 'language interference', when in Russian we say "гораздо больше денег/книг" without any formal differences.
By the way, the similar meaning can be expressed through the colloquial phrase 'a lot' and 'far' without any dependence on the countable/uncountable notion.
So, you can say 'a lot more time' or 'a lot more books'; 'far more time' or 'far more books'.
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