Much or many?

Can you count these things?

boat

water
flower sand

sugar grape
 Do they make sensible plurals?
boats

waters
flowers sands

sugars grapes
 If you can count it, use
‘many’

• Too many flowers a...a....chooo!

 If you can count it, use
‘many’

• I ate so many
grapes that I
felt sick
 If you can count it, use
‘many’

• How many boats can

you see?
 If you can’t count it, use
‘much’
• How much sand
do you need?
If you can’t count it, use
‘much’

There is too
much water on
the floor!
Clean it up!
 Much or many?

•For plurals, use many

•For non-countable
things, use much
 much
How _________ orange
juice do you want?
 many
How _________ biscuits
did you eat?
There were
many
too _____
people in the
queue, so I
didn’t wait.
He put so
much salt in
_____
the soup that
it tasted
horrible.
The teacher
gave us too
much
_____
homework.
I saw
many
_____
toucans in
the tree.
 Now try these
1. You are making too _____ noise!
2. How _____ sugar do you want in your tea?
3. How _____ apples are there?
4. Why are there so _____ policemen here?
5. How _____ chicken do you want?
6. How _____ chickens did you buy?
7. He has told me that so _____ times!
8. I have too _____ work to do.