Learn English – **How many times and how much** in comparison

Whether is not a question word, although it looks like one.

Question words beginning with wh are the following:

• what
• which
• where
• who
• whose
• when
• why

The rule for making questions using question words is fairly simple:

Question word + auxiliary + subject + infinite or, "QUASI" is a useful acronym. ^{(It is not infallible but it works most of the time)}

1) Which colour did she choose to make it? Blue or green? (if there is a limited choice)

2) What colours did she use? (a wider choice of colours is inferred here)

3) Who made it? Did you? OR "Was it me or you?" (in this case, who is the subject of the question and does not require an auxiliary)

You can omit the wh question word and ask a yes/no type question.

Auxiliary + subject + infinite

• "Did you use blue or green?" asked Maria.
• Maria asked, "Did you make it?"

If you wanted to use whether you have to rephrase your sentence. Note that the following are not questions. There is no question mark at the end.

• Maria asked whether she used blue or green.
• Maria asked whether [name] made it or not.

If you really need to make questions with whether then the following is acceptable

• Do you know whether she used blue or green to make her scarf (it)?
• Did you find out whether it was me or her who made it?

"Multiple" sounds more natural to me. Both are correct, or at least colloquially acceptable. Both mean about the same thing, but "many" seems to imply (to me) that you have to hear the name a number of times which is probably equal to more than 4, (but that is just my assumption, others might interpret this vague terminology slightly differently.)

As a native English speaker, (from Utah,) I use "Multiple times" and was wondering if this is correct, because I know the word primarily from math class, but I know other people use it this way. To me, it sounds more natural to say "multiple times," and as someone else said, "many times" would imply a greater amount than "multiple times" would tend to, although both are vague. "A few" is definitely 3 (or approximately 3.) People use these terms very loosely, it is not a big deal.

If "Multiple" means "containing many subparts" then it is still correct to use it this way, since it contains multiple instances of the same thing, that qualifies as subparts of the whole experience which is a combination of similar events which are being pointed out.