grammar · neutral
as much/many + noun + as
Used to say that two things have an equal amount or number of something (as many for countables, as much for uncountables).
Examples
“She has as many books as her sister.”
“I don't drink as much coffee as I used to.”
“Students today spend as much time online as watching TV.”
Band 8 sentence
“Contemporary students spend as much time engaging with digital media as they do attending face-to-face lectures, which has implications for pedagogical design.”
Collocations
- as many people as
- as much time as
Common mistakes
as many people than→as many people as
as much peoples as→as many people as
Say it for a higher band
5more + noun + than→6the same number of→7+as much/many + noun + as
Synonyms
the same number of
Easily confused
the same number of + plural noun
“They have the same number of employees as their competitor.”
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