Phrase/much

Phrase/much
Message de vaiana posté le 27-12-2018 à 01:37:16 (S | E | F)
Bonsoir.
Pourquoi dit-on : "He must have spent a lot of money and certainly does not earn much"
et non pas "He must have spent a lot of money and certainly does not earn it a lot" ? MERCI

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Modifié par lucile83 le 30-12-2018 15:45

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Réponse : Phrase/much de here4u, postée le 27-12-2018 à 08:12:52 (S | E)
Hello!
To earn/ make much/ money/ to earn little money
C’est simple ... Pourquoi vouloir rendre ceci moins naturel ... et plus Frenchie ?? English has a right to exist by itself and not be copied from other language patterns if the language itself doesn’t require it...

( If you DO want to complicate what is simple, « a lot of it » would have been acceptable... )

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Réponse : Phrase/much de gerondif, postée le 28-12-2018 à 00:26:23 (S | E)
Bonjour
Petit rappel du cours de base sur "beaucoup".
On emploie en général et de préférence a lot en phrase affirmative mais much (+ singulier) et many (+ pluriel) en forme interrogative ou négative.
I have a lot of money, I have a lot of friends.
Do you have much money ? Do you have many friends ?
No, I don't have a lot of money, No, I don't have many friends.

ON peut bien sûr employer a lot partout.

Donc, logique que l'on ait:
"He must have spent a lot of money and certainly does not earn much"

et non pas "He must have spent a lot of money and certainly does not earn it a lot"
It est faux, money serait remplacé par some. A lot seul pourrait aller, ou a lot of it comme le disait here4u.
"He must have spent a lot of money and certainly does not earn a lot / much "
"He must have spent a lot of money although he does not earn that much " (bien qu'il n'en gagne pas tant que cela).

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Réponse : Phrase/much de vaiana, postée le 30-12-2018 à 20:06:10 (S | E)
Okay, thanks a lot to both of you, I got it!

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