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How many is this bag vs How much is this bag

The correct phrase is "How much is this bag?" This is because we use "how much" for uncountable nouns like money, time, or weight, while we use "how many" for countable nouns like apples, books, or bags.

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How many is this bag

This phrase is incorrect. We should use "how much" for uncountable nouns like bags.

Incorrect. Use "how much is this bag?" when asking about the price of an item.
  • So with the infrared camera, you should be able to make out how many fingers I'm holding up, even though you can't see through this bag.
  • And this bag... the bag that Nikki got you, let's just hold that bag up for one more... just one more second.
  • And this bag is not a bag of memories.
  • I put it in this bag, and now bag hole!
  • As it stands, the flights, e.g. from Europe to the US, are limited to one bag for free and once again this bag is restricted as to both size and weight.
  • How many bags of dog food, how many hamster water bottles...
  • How many peas I've been responsible for freezing over 30 years. Well, how many in a bag on average?
  • There is absolutely nothing healthy in this bag.
  • Carry my purse and this bag with sneakers.
  • Ma'am, I need you to put that purse in this bag.
  • This bag... It's Maya's.
  • So, it seems there's this bag...
  • Mike, tell me where to get this bag.
  • This bag is full of Fruit Roll-Ups and baseball cards.
  • So I'm thinking we should go with this bag.
  • This bag is as fake as you are.
  • Okay, we're going to have to hide this bag.
  • I'll let you take anything - out of this bag.
  • There's something bad here in this bag.
  • Whoever own this bag has Jia's suitcase.

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  • how much is this bag?

How much is this bag

This phrase is correct and commonly used when asking about the price of an item.

Correct. Use "how much is this bag?" when asking about the price of an item.
  • But you make me wonder just how much a bag costs.
  • How much of the bag have we smoked today, mate?
  • How much for the whole bag?
  • Besides, I'd need a much bigger bag.
  • Not so much for the bag, but...
  • When you grow up your whole life not allowed to talk to boys there's not much in that bag of tricks.
  • After the success of the first one, I'm sure this one was pretty much in the bag.
  • This is so much more than a bag.
  • I just wish men appreciated bags as much as women.
  • I want to look good, but I think it's crazy to spend so much money on a bag.
  • Sources tell us Sam Keating's remains were placed in four separate garbage bags, much like this one, after they were severely burned and dismembered.
  • It wasn't much of a party bag.
  • Foaming shall be avoided by removing the air from the stomacher bag as much as possible.
  • Speaking of which, how much is my aunt's timeless, beautiful, classic apothecary bag?
  • How much is total direct payments, both coupled and decoupled, and how much is supply aid? 3.
  • Ultimately we will be judged not by how much is promised but by how much is delivered.
  • How much is innate, how much is learned?
  • Development shows how much is expected of Europe, and how much from European politics, and we should live up to these expectations.
  • I want to know how much of that scream is really you and how much is in post.
  • I appeal to the Commission to prepare a programme which will remove the structural causes of poverty and not just its effects, and also for monitoring aimed at establishing how much of the aid reaches the poor, and how much is retained by intermediaries.

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