The natural way to use much, many, a lot of and lots of
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- Join us for a tour of our deck and see where we'll be watching the fireworks this July 4th. You'll also learn how we use much, many, a lot of and lots with countable and uncountable nouns. We'll show you how to use them the natural way.
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Her smile is contagious.. thanks for your lessons.
You are so kind, Nana. Thank you!
You`re the best teacher ever! thank you so much !
Thank you so much for the kind words, Sena.
You are so kind to let we know how to use it.Thanks a lot.
It's our pleasure WUWU WU. So glad you liked it. :-)
1) a lot of/lots of + (un)countable nouns
2) many+countable nouns
3) much+uncountable nouns
You've got it Mollie! :-) Great job.
I love your way of teaching.... Thanks very much
You are most welcome, Bassou.
Your house is beautiful! I wish you were my grandparents! You are so kind and cute!😍❤️
That's such a lovely thought, Juan Jose, but there are so many people who want us to be their grandparents, that they've had to form a line (queue) on the internet :-) Thanks for writing to us and thanks for watching our videos.
Haha yes! I have been seeing in the comments that lots of people wants you to be their grandparents! By the way, I am from Argentina and I am 15! Keep posting videos and please take care of yourselves! You are the best!❤️❤️❤️
You're better than my English teacher!
Thanks Niko. Please support your English teacher. In my experience they invariably work hard and are often under appreciated.
I love your videos too much!!...lots of love from Bangladesh.
Hello Yeasir and greetings to you in Bangladesh! So glad you like the videos.
You guys are very positive, thank you
Thanks Sunil. :-)
❤❤A jolly nice married couple, and a goooorgeous deck !Felicitaciones from Olivos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
@marianoscotti8899, thanks for your kind comments, and thank you so much for watching our videos. - Jay
Thanks for sharing your lives with us!
It's out pleasure Cinzia. Thanks for watching.
You are the best; I'll follow you immediately.
That's wonderful news Maria. Welcome to the Simple English Videos family. Please write to us when you have any thoughts or comments on our videos. - Jay
Another crystal clear explanation. Thank you. I love this channel.
You are so welcome, mau sib. Thanks for watching.
You both are amazingly creative and competent! I love this video! I still don't have a deck but it's a part of my dream house! I will have it! 😁😁😁
Thank you so much for the kind words Fernanda. So glad you liked it. I never dreamed that I would have a house with a deck, but here I am living in one!
Hello from Brazil again! There are lots of English tips in this video
Thank you so much for that.
Hello Ives! So glad it was useful. Greetings to Brazil!
Unfortunately, we don't have deck and we need more space to have a garden. But, we have lots of correct grammar to say to lots of people because of you, Vicky and Jay.. Thanks a lot from Indonesia
Hello Irwan, thank you so much and you are very welcome.
Lol agreed
I love this video !! Very useful !! Thank u so much !!
溫妮廖 , We're really, really pleased this video was useful for you. Thank you for watching.
wow, how lovely you are! Our family has a little garden. We play with our baby there everyday! And we are in Vietnam.
Thank you for sharing that little peek into your garden,
Thoa Pham Thi Kim. I
It's really nice showing us around the house ☺ And the lesson is smooth and easy ☺ Happy 4th Vicki and Jay!
It was our pleasure, Ahmed. Thank you so much.
You are so fun and thanks so much for your lessons, always useful.
You're very welcome Elizabeth. So glad you like them.
Very clear explanation! And very useful too! Thanks
You're so welcome Tere. Delighted it was clear and useful.
Wow, what a lovely deck! 😍
I love the deck. My house, in a small town, used to have one. My family usually went to it for stargazing. But now we moved to an apartment in the city :D
And, thanks for you lesson, it's very useful.
Ah yes, Xuan. Decks are a great place for star gazing. We have a lot of light pollution from all skyscrapers, so ours isn't the best place for star gazing, but it's not bad.
I love your deck. What a beautiful view: skyscrapers and trees!!! Philly is a lovely city and you’re lucky to live in. I think it must be nice sunbathing, reading, eating... on your deck when spring arrives. I live in a terraced house: three floors, 32 stairs from ground to mansard, a front garden and another behind the house.
Hello Marymar. Yes, Philly is an unusual city because there are lots of little homes like ours next to the skyscrapers. We feel very lucky to live here. And you have taught me a new word: mansard. Thank you! I think we might call it a gambrel in British English.
Simple English Videos Mansard?Attic? Do these words mean the same thing? Sorry, but I didn’t find gambrel in my vocabulary...
I think (and I might be wrong) that mansard is the words Americans use to describe a roof that starts off with a normal slope and then slopes down very suddenly. People might have their attics inside the space but a mansard is the outside roof bit. In British English I think we'd call that a gambrel, but it's a technical word and I'm not sure. Maybe an architect or someone will read this one day and be able to help us out.
Ok, my space is definitely an attic! 🏡 Thank you for answering! Very kind of you, Vicki 💕
I like this video as I like every of yours!
And you are both so nice!
There is always much to learn thanks to you.
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And we thank you very much, Mona. It's our pleasure.
Thank you so much, Vicki and Jay hard work on this videos. You always make interesting and funny videos, and those are really helpful. By the way, Your house is beautiful and has a nice view from the deck.
Thank you so much Kyan. So glad you like the videos. The deck is the favourite part of our house. We'll be up there tomorrow to see the fireworks.
well done !! I really appreciate it !!
Thanks a lot for this video.
The video has a lot of information but the details are subtle. I don't know how many people know the exact grammar of these words but I didn't know them as clearly as I know them now. I don't have a garden and a deck in my house but if I had, I would have a lots of plants in it.
So glad we've helped to make it clearer, Anil. We have lots of pots of plants on our deck and I get a lot of pleasure from watching them grow.
Siete davvero simpaticissimi!!!!! I love yours videos!
Thank you so much DrixD. :-)
😍
What an aaawesome view!!! I wish, I could enjoy it with you. And a lot of beer and burgers as well of course… :-) Keep on teaching! We love it!
Jochen, it's kind words of encouragement from viewers like you that give us the inspiration to keep on producing these videos. Thank you so much for watching.
you are old man and old women but you are even more energetic than me.ı am just 20 years old thank you all
Thanks for watching, Caner.
Thanks for this lesson. You both are so nice! Cheers from Brazil :)
Hello SEP Palmeiras and welcome to our channel. So glad you like the videos.
Thank You Friends Through this lesson we were able to get to know "a lot" about your daily life,you Rock!!! Thanks "a Lot"😂😂😂
So glad you liked it Marco. Thanks for watching. :-)
And great use of 'a lot'. :-)
Many thanks for such a good explanation. I learnt (learned) a lot.
That's great to hear, Flor. So glad it was useful.
thank you for the explanation it was clear.
That's great to hear. Thanks David.
I like listening your videos.
That's great to hear Raimundo. Thank you.
Thanks for this video Vicky and Jay... Love your deck. Enthralling view from your deck. Philadelphia is a very beautiful place...And I have a big garden which was very beautiful...
One day we'll shoot some video of the skyscrapers at night, Ashish. Big gardens can be a lot of work, but so satisfying. Are you enjoying the world cup?
Simple English Videos Yes I enjoy the world cup and support my favourite England. I hope England can win the world cup
They're now third favourites, I hear.
Simple English Videos Yes you're right England is the most favorite in this world cup...Love England Love Harry Kane
Great match yesterday, eh?
Amazing! Thanks!
Our pleasure!
Hi Vicki Hi Jay your house is very beautiful congratulations
I hope you have a nice weekend
Thanks Aparecido. I'm not sure you'd think the house is beautiful if you saw it, but we love the deck. :-)
I love your acting! and it also helps me *A LOT*
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Hi August. We're so pleased you like our video. Thanks for letting us know and thanks for watching.
Nice to see you😊
Nice to see you too, INDONESIANS LEARN ENGLISH.
Happy 4th of July. I hope you have LOTS OF fun!
Thanks Craig! Looking forward to sharing a beer with you on our deck next month!
Very helpful lesson.Thank you :)
So glad it was useful Slaviosata. Thanks for writing and telling us.
My birthday is on the Fourth of July. I think the word a lot of is great. Much for uncountable nouns and many for countable nouns. I have much money. A lot of is neutral. I have a lot of friends- I have a lot of sugar. I have much sugar. In German there is only one form- es gibt- in french il y a. We Portuguese people use one há. Spanish use one in the present- hay. I have many friends.
Thank you . 🙏🏼
You are most welcome, Suvh. Thanks for watching.
Great video, as always 🙏
So glad you liked it. Thanks Birgit. :-)
It's useful, thank for teaching us about that,
So glad it was useful. Thanks for writing Dang.
I loved this video ^^ very useful!
So glad you liked it Valentina. Thanks for writing.
You are a lovely couple and amazings teachers too, when u teach , its like grandmo or grandpa is teaching me english :)
Thank you so much for the kind words Samuel. Happy studying!
Yep we have big garden.
I love your videos 🥰
Thank you so much for you kind words, Litera Lab. And thank you for watching our videos.
you are so cute I like this video thank you so much
Thanks so much, Marwa. So glad you like it. Thanks for writing.
From the deck of my house six - floor building , I can see many different ships passing by the Suis . Canal
Wow! Does your house have six floors Youssef! We thought we had a lot with five! You must keep very fit! And what a wonderful view you have.
Simple English , Yes , it's a wonderful view , but, hardly I go up to roof , remark that I consider ground floor as first floor ( like Americans do ).
that helped me sooo much with my exam tomorrow !
thanks alot and happy holidays !
That's great to hear Qq Ww. How did the exam go and happy holidays to you too.
Really interesting. Now I have everything so clear. It´s different from how I learnt it, I mean the way you explain is so soft and wonderful like a little puppy. You have a good methodology to teach grammar. One more time I am really surprised. I must study every video you upload and also, you encourage me to be a teacher... Have warm hugs and Happy July 4th... Love you so much
So glad to hear it's helpful, Cristhian. Thank you so much for all the kind words. It's great to have you with us.
And lm actually a native speaker but i agree.
Nice deck I envy u guys thnx for this grammar
You're very welcome, Mohammed. We feel very lucky to have our deck and were glad we could share it with you.
I give 5 stars👍
Thanks so much, Biagio. And thanks for watching.
You have such a cute smile!!!
Thank you so much Vanessa.
i like this video, thank you
We're glad you like it. Thanks Bahati. :-)
You are the best :D
It's so funny learn with u.
Thanks so much Bruna. We're so glad you're having fun. That's our goal - to make learning English fun.
Bruna, that's so kind of you to say. We are very pleased you are learning with our videos.
Hi! I really enjoy been virtually invited to your lovely house! I have a little garden with many plants and flowers and next to it there's a deck that hasn't got much space but somehow I manage to share it with lots of friends (is my comment grammatically correct? ) Thanks for the video!!🤗😉
Hi Alberto. Great to hear about your home and well done on your English! Perfect! The only thing that was unclear is how you manage to share your deck with friends. Do you invite them around or is it a shared space? Sharing with friends is one of the big pleasures of our deck too. We didn't get to tell you in the video but we have some great neighbors who live next door. They have a separate deck, but we can talk when we go outside and we often share a drink and chat out there.
Simple English Videos I can imagine both of you chating and sharing a drink with your neighbours!! There must be lots of topics to talk about!!! And a lot of laughs too. I own a private deck but almost every weekend I invite some friends to have a barbacue (an "asado" as we say in Spanish😉)
Your voice is so sweet
:-)
Hello from Russia, you're so cute, I can't stop watching your videos since i accidentaly found them. You remind me of my first teacher of English in school, when i was about 6 years old. Tha'ts a great explanation though i alreardy know how to use these words (as fas as i count that i know :D), but it really helpfull for those who don't. Can't say for other languages, but especially for russians, because for all of these words we have only one in our language. So I remember it was confusing for me to get them how to use properly in different situations compare for just 1 word for every of this in Russian :c And if i may ask, make a video about phrasal verbs: make off, cutt off, get off, get on, go on etc. Because most of the people have big problems with understanding and translations of that (translator often doesn't translate correctly such words). It would be very helpful in that easy way you're making your videos of grammar explanations. Thank you for your videos, keep it on!
Hi Sergey. Thanks so much for sharing this. We have made some videos about phrasal verbs that you might enjoy: ua-cam.com/play/PLwrM2Wcy_MsAPG80wXi2_ItnAAMmzSpXJ.html We'll try to make some more next year.
Hi! I love your videos. You are so cute!!!! In my house there is a deck but unfortunately there isn't an yard/ a garden.
Hello Luciana. So glad you like the videos. Decks are wonderful spaces. So are gardens, of course, but you don't have to mow the lawn on a deck.
Simple English Videos Yeah. 😂😂😂
I love you so much!!!
Thanks for the kind words, Ciro.
@@SimpleEnglishVideosYou are welcome! I'm an English teacher and I find your lessons interesting and useful.
Great video as usual ;-) .. congratulations for you nice house and.. is that a mural over there? I mean the one I see behind you on a quite distant building at 4' 08" ?
Oh well spotted Nicola! You're right. There are thousands of murals in Philly and I'd like to make a video about some of them one day. www.muralarts.org/about/
Simple English Videos thanks Vicky
Hi! I LOVE your videos. Are you from UK, aren't you? I LOVE your accent!!!
Yours house is beautiful, by the way, I wish I had one
Hi Dang. When we were shopping for a house and I saw this one, I wasn't impressed. But when I saw the deck, I wanted it. :-)
Simple English Videos , how much for this house, sir?
Gracias.
You are most welcome.
thank you
You are very welcome Adhwa. And thank you for watching our videos.
Oh fancy!
:-)
Thanks a lot guys.
you've got such a nice house though it's rather small.
Does the deck mean the roof of the house?
Hello Haider. The roof of a house is its protective covering. In our case our deck is similar to a roof because it covers the top floor of our house. But decks can also be at different levels - including at ground level. A deck is a wooden floor built out from the back of a house, where you can sit and relax outdoors. Another meaning of the word is one of the levels on a bus or plane.
Good morning I don't have a yard because my house is not too big.
Thank a lot.
Ah yes, same here Nick.
I have one, well here we call it "roof garden" (is it correct?) is a deck and there are some plants and a dog, your house is beautiful.
Hello Pablojavier. Great to hear from you. Yes, roof garden is another common term. Roof gardens are normally larger and you'll find them at the top of hotels, or apartment buildings where they might be a shared space.
You guys lucky .i never been lucky in my entire life.lol
If only it were true, farideh. :-)
Hi Vicki and Jay! Thank you for your great video lessons!
Could you help me please?
How to say "VERY much" in positive sentences? More than a lot?
And is the following sentence correct?
My job gives me not only a lot of money, but it also makes me feel much better.
Thank you VERY MUCH!
Hello Elukha. I'm not sure if I've understood the question, but perhaps this will help: We usually use 'very' with adjectives to make them stronger or more intense. For example. It's very hot on the deck. It's very noisy on the deck. (We couldn't say it's very much hot, or it's very much noisy). But there are some adjectives (often they are past participles that we use as adjectives) where we can't say very and we have to say 'very much'. For example: I'm very much afraid that the noise will be a problem. (We wouldn't say very afraid here.) We very much enjoyed the party. (We wouldn't say very enjoyed.) It's complicated, isn't it? These sentences are pretty formal and the good news is I don't expect you'll run into them very often in everyday speech.
And your sentence is fine. 'Much better' is a comparative structure. We can use words like much and far to make comparative adjectives stronger. If you didn't want to compare two things, you could say 'it also makes me feel good'. Hope this helps.
Can you please do a video on were and where🤗
Are you thinking of something about the pronunciation here Gqom, or the meaning?
@@SimpleEnglishVideos The pronunciation🐒 sorry you can call Andy my name is Andy
Hi! Thank you so much for one more super useful video! :)
I also have a question. Are both of these sentences correct? : 1 There isn't much traffic. 2.There isn't a lot of traffic.
Hello Victoria. Great question. Yes, both of these sentences are correct.
Simple English Videos, Thanks a lot for the reply😊
We have not a deck, but we have a garden where a lot of fruits are grown.
Oh that sounds wonderful Cholpon. What kind of fruit? I'd love to grow some fruit. We do have a pepper plant growing this year and it has flowered so I am expecting some hot peppers later this summer.
We have two apple trees, a lot of cherry trees and a big plum tree.
Wonderful!
You're super teachers!! Thank you very much!!
Thanks again for writing to us Valerie. We really appreciate you letting us know. Take care.
clever :)
:-)
Last fireworks sound like machine guns!!
People do get them confused, SlowLIfe. Thanks for watching.
Is It possible to use "a lot of" or "lots of" in the negatives and interrogatives as well?
Hi Laura. Great question. Yes it is. :-)
Thank you. I don't have deck.
You're very welcome.
How can we use these on time,a lot of time?
Hello Zhang. You might like this video on in time and on time. ua-cam.com/video/eosNZiwEslo/v-deo.html
hello please tell me what is diffrent between I am out of milk and I have not got any milk please answer💐💐💐💐💐
Hi neda. They both mean the same thing. You can say either one. :-)
where do you live?
Hello Bartek. We live in Philadelphia in the US.
Ist es bei jedem dass der Titel und die Beschreibung auf Deutsch gezeigt werden? Ich kann sehen dass jemand beide übersetzt hat, aber wie kann man den originellen Text lesen? Ich bin nicht gewöhnt an diese Eigenschaft von YT.
Hello Tiefe. We don't fully understand the workings of UA-cam either, but we have opened all of our videos up to translations. Sometimes our viewers kindly provide translations into other languages.
If you can only see the text in German, I think you need to click the cc button (under the video bottom right) and you should be able to select an option to see the text in English.
@@SimpleEnglishVideos Thanks for the reply. Actually I digged up a bit more and I see the title and description in German because that's the language I use by default on YT, by switching to English, I can see the original text. Sorry that I didn't write the previous comment in English.
Instead of saying we use "many" before countable nouns and "much" before uncountable nouns, could I tell my students we use many with plural nouns and much with singular? They sometimes have a hard time trying to figure out what countable and uncountable nouns are, since depending on the noun, it's different from language to language.
Hi Rafael. Great question. First the rule. We use many with plural countable nouns but with singular countable nouns we'd say a or an. And yes. You're right that it is hard to figure out whether a noun is countable or uncountable. There are some general patterns nouns follow, (and we'll try to make a video about that) but in lots of cases your students will need to learn them one by one. I'm not sure whether there's a way to get round that I'm afraid.
I don’t have a yard or a garden, nevertheless I have a balcony with flowers. My clothes dry there.
We are very lucky to have our deck .Jay here. I was away on a business trip when Vicki found this house for sale. She called me and asked how I felt about steps, and I told her I wasn't thrilled. Then she asked how I felt about a roof deck and I said "Buy it!"
Not British and not American, but an Australian deck! :) Look it up on YT.
I found a funny New Zealand deck commercial, but nothing Australian. We're going to need more clues nowymail.
That's it. I think they use the same English. or maybe I've mistaken the countries. They have several of those commercials.
Ha! They're very funny. They play on the way New Zealanders pronounce 'deck' as 'dick' and I'm not sure whether Australians do that to, though I think it might be less so. Maybe an Ozzie will read this and be able to fill us in. We ought to make a video about those two vowel sounds.
Can you do alot and a lot of also
Everyday and every day
I confuse about these
A lot of and alot of*
Hi UpsideKen. We have made a video about a lot of and lots of that you can see here: ua-cam.com/video/cSeUHmKjhC8/v-deo.html
@@SimpleEnglishVideos oh I see thank you I didn't notice it
Can you make about Indiom? I haven't seen so far
Ha! It might be a bit hard to know what you haven't seen Upside Ken, byt we can certainly look at some more idioms. :-)
Hooooo may god
:-)
I have a garden but I don't have a deck.
Ah, and we're the opposite Focus. We have a deck but not a garden. :-)
Hi
Hi Mikrix91. :-)
BE MY GRANDPARENTS
Vicki, knowing your position toward Brexit, I guess you aren’t MUCH happy about Boris’s election...
You're right, Claudio! Oh it's been a bad news week!
Bitch I’m British why I’m I watching this mate
We've no idea ReubenIdesonforlife, but we're happy to have you here.
Are u couple?
Alan, this is Jay writing back to you. Vicki and I were married for 24 years. Sadly she passed away in December of 2022, but the channel continues with her son, her daughter in law and me. We hope you'll continue to watch. - Jay
@@SimpleEnglishVideos I'm sorry to hear that.
Actually, are you married couples? And where are you living in? No offense.
Yes, we are married. (This is Jay writing.) Vicki says I'm a very lucky man. I think she's right about that. And we live in Philadelphia in the USA. No offense taken at all.