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From: Bob Cunningham <exw6sxq@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Use of 'much'
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Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:25:40 GMT
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On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 09:16:32 +0100, Chris Croughton
<chris@keristor.net> said:
> I happened to hear an American pops ong recently which contained a usage
> which seemed strange to me:
> "I do love you much."
> In British English that is wrong. Is it acceptable American, or a
> dialect form, or a slang usage?
"I love you much" is not something the ordinary American
would be expected to say, although "I don't love you much"
is unexceptionable.
I wouldn't call "I love you much" wrong, though. I think
it's grammatically okay, and its meaning is clear. "I love
you lots" is an exact parallel to it while being more
natural for a native American speaker to say.
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