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Ummmm no. It’s all about about countable and uncountable nouns. ”much” being an adverb is a red herring.

The reason why we use the bare comparative ”older” is because the comparative is being applied to an uncountable noun - ”age”.

”much” is used rather than ”many” ultimately because of the fact that ”age” is an uncountable noun.

”many” can also function as an adverb when we are describing countable nouns.

Take for example a countable noun - people. Consider this snippet of conversation:

- There are a lot of people older than me in the room!

- How many older are there?

- I’d say about half the people at the party.

- Yes, there are many older here.

In this instance ”many” modifies the adjective ”older” and is hence an adverb, just like ”much” in the ”much older” example.

The ultimate reason why it is ”many” modifying the adjective ”older” here is because it’s describing the countable noun ”people”, just as ”much” is part of the descriptor of the uncountable noun ”age”...

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