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my question is not really whether it is as many as vs as much as. i'd like to know is it modifying 40 percent or its trees
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The Sunset Park neighborhood in Brooklyn lost as many as 40 percent of its trees, according to Commissioner Joe Bruno of the city Office of Emergency Management.

is this sentence correct? this is from cnn.com


40% of its trees would evaluate to a (countable) number and hence the sentence is correct.

I have misplaced as many as 80% of my cd's

whereas we would say...

I have misplaced as much as 80% of the collection of my cd's
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what about 80% of pullution?
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what about 80% of pullution?


It will be "as much as 80% of pollution".

"pollution" is uncountable.

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what about 80% of pullution?

It will be "as much as 80% of pollution".

"pollution" is uncountable.

- Brajesh


ok, so its not modifying the percentage itself. thanks



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