 Best Best best means better than all others in quality or value Chesapeake Bay Chesapeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay is an inlet of the Atlantic in Maryland and Virginia It is 200 miles or 320 kilometers long and 4 to 40 miles or 6 to 64 kilometers wide Corn on the cob Corn on the cob Corn on the cob is corn when cooked and eaten straight from the cob The part of corn that kernels grow on an ear of corn crabs crabs Crab is a sea animal that has a hard shell, eight legs and two large claws Credit credit Credit is money that a bank or business will allow a person to use and then pay back in the future Dozen Dozen a Dozen is a group of 12 people or things ear ear An ear is the part of a corn plant on which the seeds grow freshest Freshest freshest means the most fresh. How many? How many? Many is used to refer to a large number of things or people. How much? How much? Much means large in amount or extent larger Larger Larger means greater in size or amount market Market a Market is a place where products are bought and sold money money Money is something such as coins or bills Used as a way to pay for goods and services and to pay people for their work most most Most means almost all or the majority of motorboat motorboat a Motorboat is a boat with a motor oldest oldest Oldest means having the highest age of a group Potomac River Potomac River The Potomac River is a river flowing from West Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay It flows between Maryland and Virginia pound pound A pound is a unit of weight that is equal to 16 ounces or about a half of a kilogram River River a River is a large natural flow of water that crosses an area of land and goes into an ocean or a lake sail sail To sail means to travel on water in a ship or a boat a Sail is a large piece of strong cloth that is connected to a ship or boat And that is used to catch the wind that moves the ship or boat through the water sailboat a Sailboat is a boat that has a sail sailor sailor a Sailor is a person who works on a boat or ship as part of the crew Salad Salad a Salad is a mixture of raw green vegetables such as different types of lettuce usually combined with other raw vegetables seafood seafood Seafood is fish and shellfish that live in the ocean and are used for food some some Refers to an unspecified amount or number spend spend To spend means to use money to pay for something water Water Water means an area of water such as a lake river or ocean Waterfront Waterfront a Waterfront is the land or the part of a town next to the water of an ocean river or lake When we want to talk about a number of things we often use the words much and many to talk about the quantity There is a simple rule about when to use them To learn the rule you should know there are two kinds of nouns One kind is count nouns These are things you can count you can put a number before these nouns For example, I have three dollars The other kind is non count nouns These are things that are very small like sand or a liquid a gas a concept or an activity You cannot put a number before these nouns For example, I have two cash is not correct We can count these things if they are in a container such as a box a bag or a bottle for example You can say I have two bags of cash Use many with a noun that has a plural form These nouns are things that you can count For example, Pete asks how many crabs do you want? How much money can you spend? Use much with non count nouns These are nouns that do not usually have a plural for example Pete asks Anna How many crabs do you want? One non count noun is corn if we want to count corn we can talk about ears of corn Now you try it Look at the picture Ask a question with how much or how many I Want to buy some corn? How many ears of corn do you want? Now try it with this picture. I need water to take to the gym How much water do you need?