
Sep 25th, 2015, 02:01 am
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| Sue | | Join Date: Oct 8th, 2006 Location: Milan
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Re: Which way is correct? Very much can't be used with adjectives (like hungry). Much is used with uncountable nouns - I haven't got very much money - while very many is the equivalent for countable nouns - He hasn't got very many friends.
With adjectives you just use an adverb - very, really, desperately etc - so the conversation should be :
A: Are you hungry now?
B1: (Yes, but... or No,) Not very.
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B2: (No,) Not really.
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B3: (Yes, but...or (No) Not desperately.
etc etc. The words in brackets are optional. |