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Rule "Possible agreement error: 'many/several/few' + uncountable noun"

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Description: Possible agreement error: 'many/several/few' + uncountable noun
Message: Possible agreement error. The noun \2 seems to be uncountable; consider using: much \2, a good deal of \2.
Category: Grammar (ID: GRAMMAR)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/word-choice-many-vs-much/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • I have many wine.
    Correction suggestion: much wine, a good deal of wine
  • I have many money
    Correction suggestion: much money, a good deal of money
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • How many wine bars are there in Cheshire?
  • This ended in death-like trances with many lying exhausted and panting on chair and floor.
  • ... Amsterdam Museum, its red-light district, and its many cannabis coffee shops draw more than 3.66 million ...
  • Many once large and international communities have been...
  • ... as many may think that this is the real one.
  • In many IT/telecommunications companies, this position is organically higher than the chief technical officer.
  • With many IT budgets being frozen or reduced...
  • He called on all the senior Afghan party leaders, many then based in exile in Peshawar, to work out a political settlement acceptable to all sides and parties.
  • There are several spelling and grammar checkers to choose from.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: MANY_NN_U [1]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-04-24 22:33:07 +0200)