Rita is very much a lady. Rita is very much of a lady. Rita is too much of a lady. Rita is very much a lady.: Here we mean that it is quite true that Rita is a lady. The emphasis is on the truth part of the sentence rather than on Rita being a lady. Rita is very much of a lady.: Here we mean that Rita has a lot of ladylike characteristics.

Oct 3, 2015 · When "very much" modifies a preceding complement construction, there is often a distressing ambiguity about whether it modifies the main verb phrase or the complement verb phrase: "I prefer not to eat snails very much" could mean either that your preference for not eating snails is extreme, or that snails are okay if indulged in only occasionally.

Rest: VERY MUCH / TOO MUCH (+ noun) I don't have very much money [but "very much" with nouns is not common, see note 2 below] He drank too much gin tonic at the party (+ verb) I think you work very much / too much. Remember that we don't normally separate a transitive verb from its direct object, and this is especially true for VERY/TOO MUCH: I ...

Dec 23, 2015 · Don't put too much cinnamon in the coffee cake. means only put in the amount that is required (it might be a lot), but not more than that. In this case: Don't put so much cinnamon in the coffee cake. is probably more closely aligned with too much cinnamon than with very much cinnamon. Again, though, it's hard to dissect the meaning of such ...

May 24, 2016 · In something like I don't have very much money, "very much" is a determinative phrase (DP) in which "much" belongs to the category (part of speech) 'determinative' and its modifier "very" is an 'adverb'. –

much water, much money, much sand. can be increased by prepending very like in. very much water, very much money, very much sand. But in case of countables, the large amount expressed by many like in. many trees, many people, many children. can not be increased by prepending very? So, the following is wrong? very many trees, very many people ...

Oct 13, 2014 · You're not looking for the meaning of "be very much"; you need the meaning of "be very much for", which is an idiom. To be for something is to be in favor of it, to be an advocate of it, to be a proponent of it. To modify it with "very much" is what it sounds like: to be particularly strongly or enthusiastically in favor of whatever it is.

Aug 15, 2017 · very expresses the degree of something, whereas much normally refers to a great quantity of something, although it can be used to express the idea of "to a great degree", which blurs the boundaries between the two concepts.

Dec 22, 2020 · I am very much happy. I am so much happy. I am happy very much. I am happy so much. Are all of the above sentences correct? We use the number (1) and (3) every day. But I think the number (2) isn't correct because we can't use "so + much+ adjective ". On the other hand, "so " is interchangeable with " very ".

Jun 12, 2022 · I think that the frequency of the redundant “very much” is a further indicator of how little American usage accepts “much” as a modifier of adjectives. – Jeff Morrow Commented Jun 12, 2022 at 19:10