A REVIEW OF 26 GEN 4

To be a comparative intensifier, lots of can be employed rather than much if it modifies the comparative form of numerous, i.e. extra that has a countable noun: many more and more people but much extra snow.so much → so viel inv; (emph so, with adhering to that) → so viel; it’s not so much an issue of modernization as … → es ist nicht so