Use “a lot of” for quantities

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don't feel so well

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we just talked about many but I want to

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let you know that with the word much

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much is often used in negative

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situations you can use both much or you

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could use a lot of both of these are

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commonly used so you might say there

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isn't much coffee left there isn't

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much coffee or you could say there isn't

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a lot of coffee left here we have a

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negative sentence isn't is is not so you

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could say there isn't much coffee left

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or there isn't a lot of coffee left and

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both of these are perfectly natural the

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fourth and final hack to help your

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English sound more natural right now is

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changing the word very to the word

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really the only time that I use the word

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very is if I'm emphasizing it kind of in

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a funny way very loud like that so let's

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take a look at a quick example you might

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say the concert was very loud okay

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grammatically it's fine but if you want

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to be even more natural you could say

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the concert was really loud the concert

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was really loud and it was too loud for

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me I had to go it was really loud for me

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I might say very only if I was saying

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the sentence like this the concert was

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very loud kind of emphasizing that word

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almost in a comedic way or strange way

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so