None or nothing?
What should be the answers to these questions? why?
-How much money do you have? (None/Nothing)
-How much did you pay? (None/Nothing)

Question

None or nothing?
What should be the answers to these questions? why?
-How much money do you have?  (None/Nothing)
-How much did you pay?                (None/Nothing)

Answer

-How much money do you have? None
-How much did you pay? Nothing

I don't know why, that's just what I'd say!

Answer

Sorry, I am wrong- None goes with #1, while Nothing goes with #2.

Answer

Good point ...... !!!

Answer

Nothing is the answer to both.

None and nothing depends on the sentence, but in general, "none" goes with "how many" while "nothing" can  go with both "how many" and "how much."

Examples:

How many kids came over today? None
How many times did you see Santa? None.

How much did you pay for the turkey? Nothing.
How much money did you spend? None
How much turkey did you eat? None

But "nothing" usually does NOT go with "how many."

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