(5) James made many/more/(the) most mistakes. The definite article is optional with the superlative forms. (4) The children showed little appreciation of her efforts.The degree quantifiers many, much, few, and little have comparative and superlative forms.
(2) Don’t use too much butter in the cake. (1) Did you take many pictures of the wedding? Thus, much and little combine with or replace singular nouns, whereas many and few combine with or replace plural nouns. In both uses they are sensitive to the number of the noun they determine. The degree quantifiers many, much, few, and little function both as determiners and as substitutes for nouns and noun phrases, i.e.
