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- 18 Jan 2006
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Currently I'm reading "Essential Business Grammar and Usage" to give short lessons to my colleague who joined us about a year ago and is not confident in his English.
Reading Unit 3 from the "Verbs and tenses" section (there is/there are), I came across with this:
My question is about the last two sentences.
What exactly does "positive statements" mean here?
We should not use "much" in a sentence which is positive, i.e. not a question or negation?
Or does "much" have a negative connotation and should not be used in a positive sense, i.e. we can say "there is much work to do" but its meaning is different from "there is a lot/plenty of work to do"?
Reading Unit 3 from the "Verbs and tenses" section (there is/there are), I came across with this:
USES
2. Asking questions to find out something or someone exist
Are there many different production sites?
Is there a computer programmer here?
Is there much work to do?
Note: We use a lot of / plenty of in positive statements.
There is a lot of / plenty of work to do. (NOT*There is much work to do.)
My question is about the last two sentences.
What exactly does "positive statements" mean here?
We should not use "much" in a sentence which is positive, i.e. not a question or negation?
Or does "much" have a negative connotation and should not be used in a positive sense, i.e. we can say "there is much work to do" but its meaning is different from "there is a lot/plenty of work to do"?