Sentence Correction

Was typing out a message to someone, and had this sentence:

"Much of my notes are paraphrased."

My guess is that it was plural, because I was referring to a significant amount of notes. However, this website says its singular: https://quizlet.com/169860/singular-or-p ... ash-cards/

"Much of my notes is paraphrased."

It sounds wrong, but I can see how "much" can be singular. Anyone have an explanation of why "much" is singular, besides "it just is" ?

I think that person was trying to say "many" instead of "much."

OGMATTERS wrote:I think that person was trying to say "many" instead of "much."

Idk whether "notes" is a quantifiable noun. You can't really count your notes...your "notes" would have a different total depending on the unit you used. Pages? Lines? Words? Letters?

Much is actually uncountable whereas Many is countable. That's why, Much will take only singular verbs and not plural verbs.

papgust wrote:Much is actually uncountable whereas Many is countable. That's why, Much will take only singular verbs and not plural verbs.

Right, the fact that much is uncountable is what I was alluding to OGMATTERS above. So for your conclusion to be correct, then it's a rule that ALL pronouns that are only uncountable are singular? That's what I'm trying to dig to here...

I'm saying only for 'Much'. I'm not saying for ALL pronouns.

@ Cbenk:

Yes.. all uncountable nouns are Singular

Rules for Using Uncountable Nouns:

>Uncountable nouns only used in the singular tense.

> A or an cannot be used with uncountable nouns. "The" can be used with uncountable nouns.