How much, how many.

How to use how much and how many.

How many is used is used to ask about quantities with countable nouns and how much asks about uncountable nouns.

How many is followed by a plural noun:

How many bottles of milk?

How many books?

How many people?

How many weeks?

 

How much is followed by an uncountable noun:

How much milk?

How much work?

How much money?

How much time?

 

It is common to use there are and there is with how many? and how much?. In questions: are there? and is there?

How many pens are there on the table?

How many chairs are there in the classroom?

How much ice-cream is there in the fridge?

How much pollution is there in Barcelona?

 

See much and many used in different ways...

Exercises on how much? and how many?...

 

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