In this conversation, two people are talking about travelling when one of them says the following sentence:
I went to Paris once, but I didn't see MUCH OF the sights.
I think "sights" in this sense is a plural countable noun which means "interesting places"; so shouldn't it be "many of" not "much of"?
Best Answer
You're right, I didn't see many of the sights is correct and means I saw only a few or some of the number of interesting places.
But, I didn't see much of the sights is also correct. The idiom see much of means see frequently (especially in the recent past) or for long periods of time, and is typically used in the negated form. For example, I haven't seen much of my neighbors means I haven't seen my neighbors lately. This is valid even with a countable plural noun such as neighbors.
I didn't see much of the sights means that I spent very little time sightseeing. This means that I took in very little of what they had to offer, and likely (but not necessarily) saw numerically few of them if there were a large number.