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I don't think much of it #1 (permalink) Sat Mar 12, 2005 15:59 pm   I don't think much of it
 

Test No. incompl/inter-36 "Go for it", question 4

......... now that I've heard what he has done to his family.

(a) I think often of him
(b) I think a lot of him
(c) I don't think at all of him
(d) I don't think much of him

Test No. incompl/inter-36 "Go for it", answer 4

I don't think much of him now that I've heard what he has done to his family.

Correct answer: (d) I don't think much of him

Your answer was: incorrect
I don't think at all of him now that I've heard what he has done to his family.
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I don't thank much of it #2 (permalink) Sat Mar 12, 2005 16:40 pm   I don't thank much of it
 

I don't think much of sth. means that you don't consider it as sth. valuable. It doesn't mean that you think a lot about it.

How did you find the last movie by Tarantino??
Well, I don't think much of it.

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I don't thank much of it #3 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 3:45 am   I don't thank much of it
 

hi
why cant we use 'I think often of him'.
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I don't thank much of it #4 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:15 am   I don't thank much of it
 

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Only answer D makes sense in relation to the rest of the sentence, even though all 4 answers are grammatically possible. 'He' did something bad to his family, therefore the answer should reflect the speaker's dislike of him.
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I don't think much of it #5 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 16:48 pm   I don't think much of it
 

thread title wrote:
I don't thank much of it.


Hi MM

Just a minor point:
Don't y'all thank the title of this thread sounds like it's trying to imitate a southern drawl? :lol: :wink:
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I don't think much of it #6 (permalink) Mon Jul 14, 2008 23:03 pm   I don't think much of it
 

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Not no moah it doan'.

(To whomever it may interest: one strategy is to leave typos in thread posts and titles. Search engines are more likely to hit on your site if you have a range of spellings-- 'grammar', 'grammer', 'gramer', etc.)
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I don't think much of it #7 (permalink) Fri Jul 01, 2011 11:05 am   I don't think much of it
 

......... now that I've heard what he has done to his family.

How do we know that above part of the sentence has a negative meaning -that he has done sth bad to his family? I think it can be the positive meaning as well - he has done sth good to his family? And with the positive meaning could match: I think a lot of him, for me..
What do you think?
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I don't think much of it #8 (permalink) Fri Jul 01, 2011 12:05 pm   I don't think much of it
 

The key is 'done to his family, which means a bad thing. If it were a good thing, we would use 'done for his family'.
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