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Yoong Liat
 
Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 08:27 am
The sales company had many/much more applicants than job openings this month.

Which word should I use? Or is either fine?

Many thanks.
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fresco
 
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Reply Mon 9 Jul, 2007 08:47 am
"Many" is correct not "much".

"Many" applies to nominal measurement (counting set members)
"Much" applies to ordinal measurent (comparing size of set members).
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