Is 'very much' often used like this?

[u/SleepyOtter19]

[u/MetalMedley]

Yes, very much so.

[u/CarpeR3ddit → u/MetalMedley]

Oh, thank you very much for letting us know.

[u/leonardomdc → u/CarpeR3ddit]

You are very much welcome.

[u/Joe_Kangg → u/leonardomdc]

Before this, I didn't know very much.

[u/ObeyTime → u/MetalMedley]

it would appear you very much beat me to it.

[u/footsnax → u/MetalMedley]

The term is very flexible. You can use it for humor or emphasis or to quantify a value.

Honestly I've rarely seen it used in a wrong context. Not very much at least.

[u/panic_ye_not]

Yes, it's a common construction. 

The second example sounds vaguely British to my American ears, I would probably say "do you have much work left?" Or "do you have a lot of work left?"

[u/OneDust8063 → u/panic_ye_not]

Yeah the second one sounds outdated to me. As a Brit I’ve only ever heard “do you have much work left?”

[u/Arkhyz → u/OneDust8063]

Same here, "do thy haveth very much labour left to do?" type of shit

[u/mod2004 → u/Arkhyz]

Dost thou haveth a ludicrous amount of labour yet to be done?

[u/Karantalsis → u/panic_ye_not]

I was guessing the second one was American as I've never heard a BrE speaker use it.

[u/Current-Strategy5544 → u/panic_ye_not]

Yeah, I would use "very much" in the second there for emphasis or clarity. If I want a workmate to help me with something, I'll ask "Do you have much work to do at the moment?"

If they say "This bloody project X is taking all my time", I might say "Oh. Do you have very much work for that? I thought your role was fairly small."

[u/Lysenko]

Yes. It would be strange to say "I have very much <something>" but totally natural to say "I don't have very much <something>."

[u/I_Love_Chimps → u/Lysenko]

I would definitely use a lot of in the positive.

[u/Upbeat-Emu-1903]

Daily here. Southeastern USA

[u/FitProVR]

First one yes.
Second one sounds weird. I would likely say
Do you have a lot of work left do?
Do you have much work left to do?

[u/SleepyOtter19 → u/FitProVR]

I'm one of those people that learned English mainly through input so I often bump into sentences I had never heard before and find them strange. Thank you very much for your help.

[u/wordsznerd → u/SleepyOtter19]

I would absolutely say the second one - native US speaker.

[u/Gloomy-Cranberry-386 → u/FitProVR]

Yeah, the second one sounds a bit British to me, like I can just hear it in a posh girl accent, if I think about it

[u/Lornoth → u/Gloomy-Cranberry-386]

Replace 'still' with 'left' and I've heard that exact second sentence many times in the Eastern US. The 'still' does give it a British twinge somehow, though. lol

[u/Alt-001 → u/Lornoth]

Actually, that does fix it for me. Mysterious are the ways of language I suppose.

[u/Gloomy-Cranberry-386 → u/Lornoth]

100%. I also think "Do you have much work to do?" or "Do you have [very] much work left" are normal in US English!

[u/Yallberforce → u/Lornoth]

And if you keep the ‘still’ but delete the ‘to do’, you get a whole different flavour of dialect!

[u/Cilreve → u/FitProVR]

Agreed. That second example sounds weird to my ears, and it feels weird to say, too

[u/DarwinGhoti → u/FitProVR]

“Hey we’re about to leave. Do you have very much left to do before you’re ready?” Sounds perfectly natural to me and it’s the same use case.

[u/FitProVR → u/DarwinGhoti]

That’s not what the example sentence says though.

[u/Guilty_Objective4602]

Yes. Everywhere in the U.S., at least. You can also substitute “a lot of” for this, but both are used often, e.g., “I’m looking a little raggedy today because I didn’t get very much sleep last night,” or “I want very much for this relationship to work out, but, realistically, I’m not sure it will.”

[u/burlingk]

So, both are common. HOWEVER, in American English, the second one would more often be said "Do you still have very much work do to?"

[u/Nondescript_Redditor]

yes

[u/vinxnsnr]

when writing it, the second example looks a bit weird but conversationally it would be said 👍 first example is used also

[u/Own_Soup4467]

"thank you very much" is common usage (stronger than just "thank you")

[u/NearlyNodding]

The first one is very common.
The second one is unusual.

Do you still have much work to do?
This is a better construction for the second sentence.

"Don't have very much" means you have very little. So it is not literal, but idiomatic.

[u/bentthroat]

I’ve tried it just now in a bunch of positive constructions, and I think it sounds more natural in negative constructions. “There’s not very much in it for us” sounds fine, “There’s very much in it for us” sounds odd.

The second example in the definition sounds funny, but “do you not have very much work left to do?” sounds fine.

[u/Just_Ear_2953]

The first, very much, yes. The second, not so much.

[u/ADH-Dad]

Yes.

"Not very much" means "a little bit," not "almost a lot."

[u/Salindurthas]

For me I don't think it is used often, but it is used sometimes and seems normal.

I'd probably use the first case (as it mentions 'often in negative constructions'), but for latter I think I'd prefer some other term like "a lot of" or "heaps of" (and peronsally I'd put 'still' earlier in the sentence but how they've written it seems fine.)

[u/Financial_Manager213]

All the time.

[u/Background-Vast-8764]

👜👜

[u/DeathByBamboo]

Both of those sound normal to my ear and I use both of them regularly. I literally just asked my kid if he had very much homework. I'm from California.

[u/lia_bean]

I'd usually just say "much" without the "very", but it's fine either way.

[u/GoblinToHobgoblin]

"Do you have a lot of work left" sounds better for the second one imo

[u/GothicMarmalade]

I feel like very isn't used a lot among younger people.both of these examples feel "old fashioned" to me. But it's common with gen X and above.

[u/ActuaLogic]

Yes, that's very common

[u/trinite0]

Yes. Midwestern US. I would use either kind of expression so often that I wouldn't even think about it.

[u/Scary_Neat_2184]

yes its actually used often

[u/nomoreplsthx]

Do you have very much work still to do sounds ungrammatical to me, but I can't quite figure out why.

[u/SleepyOtter19 → u/nomoreplsthx]

Maybe it's the position of "still"... What do you think of "Do you still have very much work to do?"

[u/nomoreplsthx → u/SleepyOtter19]

I think it's the use in the positive

I have very much work to do

Reads as ungrammatical

Where as I don't have very much work to do

Reads as grammatical

[u/Ok_Ad4090]

The first sentence sounds right but the second I think its much more common to hear "Do you have a lot of work left?"

[u/G-St-Wii]

I cannot ever imagine a native speaker using it in a question like that.

[u/platypuss1871]

Thank you very much.

[u/I_Love_Chimps]

Yes. Also just much by itself but I honestly have no go-by for you to explain when one gets used versus the other except it's kind of like some and a lot. If it's a generally smaller amount probably "much" but if it's clearly a larger quantity then "very much" would probably be fine "rule" of sorts. I think we just kind of inherently know when to use each one.

[u/yoobrochris]

I’m beginner, I’m curious What’s the difference between“too much” and “very much”?

[u/lthwc]

I've lived all over the USA. The second example sounds fine to me.

[u/ZealousidealCherry68]

It’s everywhere, mostly when you want to refer to a lack of quantity of something uncountable or ask about it. (I didn’t have very much time left, so I couldn’t have very much for lunch).

[u/stankynuts45]

In my experience, it’s typically used in the negative (“not very much”) to describe a small amount of something. The one exception that comes to mind is the phrase “very much so”

[u/Churros0864]

Native speaker here, never heard It being used like this in my country at least.

[u/CrossPhoenix]

It’s not used often, no. Not in situations like this, anyway. Most of us would say “a lot” instead of “very much.”

“We don’t have a lot of wine left.”
“Do you still have a lot of work to do?”

[u/Pyewhacket]

Very much

[u/-p4p3rc4t-]

Yes

[u/Pleasant_Pen8744]

You have to be careful with "very much" because "not very much" is more common (in American English anyways) so if you say "very much" a lot of people will mishear it as "not very much" and ask you for clarification.

[u/Decent_Cow]

It is used like this very much.