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The only available solution is "He has a whole lot of pets". That is not how it would be expressed in UK English. "He has a great number of pets" or "He has very many pets" would be preferable.
Whole lotta love to y'all!
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Come on Duo, I'm getting sick of having to remember to type a very bad Americanised form ("he has a whole lot of pets") for the answer to this, when as many other people have pointed out, the answer "He has a great many pets" is perfectly correct and proper ENGLISH for this sentence.
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Very many and so many do not mean the same thing. Very many = "a great many". So many = "such a great many" and requires further qualification. For example:
He has (very) many pets. Does he have too many pets? No, but he has so many pets that he needs a bigger house.
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"many pets" was also declined and I think it is plain stupid, because now Duo has to prove that my "many" is less than his "a lots of", or admit that he's being a dick once again.
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The male speaker's pronunciation is driving me nuts. We get two words together: heel veel. He pronounces them hail, vill. Really?
And, while I'm at it, huisdieren becomes huiszieren as if he's been at the sherry before speaking.
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Another one here putting "He has a great many pets" and having it rejected. Surely UK English should be acceptable too - "a whole lot of " is almost exclusively US
'Many' & 'few' count things; 'a lot of' or 'some' describe non-discreet measure: area, time, volume, effort. - "X amount of people" while a popular trope of collective mentality, makes no sense... unless, say, they were pulped & measured by volume.
Things with discernibly separate individuality deserve numbering, even though Ellsworth Toohey has been busy in America for generations, preparing our minds, even before 'Idiocracy' became a meme.
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Shouldn't "a whole load of" be accepted here? To me this sounds far more natural in English.
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A whole lot of pets? Is a straight forward 'very many pets' ok?
Is the Dutch Duo more American than the other the languages? I've noticed that lots of young dutch folk speak English with a very American accent. Is there a strong US - Nederland link these days?