6 Find a little, a few, many, much and a lot of in the text in exercise 2. Then complete the table. With uncountable nouns With plural countable nouns 3 a lot of 1 4 2 5 LOOK OUT! We often use much and many in negative sentences and questions. We don't often use them in affirmative sentences. We use a lot of (or lots of) in both affirmative and negative sentences.