2018年7月19日 · A great many of them — here many is clearly a noun and the use of the pronoun them is perfectly idiomatic. A great many of things — but this is not idiomatic in modern English. A great many things — here “a great many” acts adjectivally as a quantifier of the noun “things” and can be seen as a set phrase meaning “a large number ...

A great many Daily Themed Crossword. We have found the following solution matching the query "A great many" in our database. This crossword clue was last seen on the popular pack Daily Themed Crossword Friends Pack Level 13 Answers. The answer we've got has a total of 4 letters. If something is wrong or missing kindly let us know and we will be ...

2012年4月18日 · "a great many xxxes" is the same as "a (very) large number of (the) xxxes". "many great xxxes" means "a large number of great/good/majestic/fantastic xxxes". "great many xxxes" doesn't mean anything (unless it's a misspelling of 'grate', in …

2016年5月19日 · You can say "a great many have" (plural + plural) or "many a time" (singular grammatically but plural in meaning). It's odd, but all those different usages of "many" still sound idiomatic to me. [Edit: As PaulQ said, "a great many" does sound formal, but it doesn't sound antiquated to me.]

2022年6月15日 · Topic: In the room _____a table and a great many chairs. Copied from title. Cagey, moderator Should I say "was found" or "were found"? My instinct is to say "were found",but in some grammar tutorial books edited by Chinese, the correct answer is "was found". I …

2008年3月11日 · "A great many" can only be followed by a plural noun, and more specifically a plural countable noun, just as you thought. For uncountable nouns, you can say "a great amount/quantity of", "a good deal of", or "much".

2006年6月6日 · Hi Elyssia, "Many" means "a large number of": "He owns many books" "Many of" means "a large proportion/percentage of":

2021年10月22日 · I don't think "a great deal of" would be used with countables" (might be exceptions but I can't think of any right now), but I don't see why "a large amount of" would be wrong with a countable noun, although it would be more common to say "a great many" or "a lot of". But other people may have a different criterion.

2015年6月1日 · (A) There is a great number of restaurants in this town. (B) There are a great number of restaurants in this town. A friend from mine, who's from California USA, says that (A) is better than (B). I don't want to agree with him there, because of the disagreement in number in Sentence (A). I've heard people say stuff like "That's so many of them!"

2006年9月12日 · "A large number of" refers to many individual items, and usually refers to normal physical items; it will usually take the plural verb. If you go to Heathrow at the moment with a lot of handbaggage, you will end up with a great deal of trouble. If you go to LHR at the moment, with a large number of bags, you will end up with a great deal of ...