How many bananas are there in the world? There are many. What is the exact date of the rewrite?
I’ve learnt that we use many in negative and interrogative sentences and a lot of in affirmative sentences. I can’t stand doing my assessment. Did the book tell me that I saw some of the examples and I know why? Can I answer: There are a lot of bananas. How can I answer with the word in a question? How many books are there? What are there many/There are many. What is your problem?
Please help me understand.
Well, there are many.
The sentence is grammatical. Why we often use the word “many” in interrogative and negative statements? Use of this adjective in affirmative statements is slightly formal. In informal English, we use “lots” or “lots” as follows: There
are a lot/lots.
Many, a lot, and lots are pronouns in the above sentences. As determiners, we say a lot of, lots of, or many as follows:
There are many bananas/there are lots of bananas.
As the word bananas is already in the question, it’s better not to use it again in the answer. “Many” as a pronoun in the reply “there are many” means “many bananas”
