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...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.
by satsuma 9y ago
...It's "fewer" there, isn't it.
- Gaelan 9y agoLess is used when you can't count the object discussed. Fewer is used when you can. "I have 2 moneys" doesn't make sense, so you use "less money." "I have 2 points" does make sense, so you use "fewer points."
- mcguire 9y agoI dunno... "Fewer rational numbers" works, but "less real numbers" sounds funny.
- Gaelan 9y agoI feel like I'm missing a joke here, but you can count real numbers ("the list contains 5 real numbers") therefore it's "fewer real numbers"
- satsuma 9y agoI can never remember a lot of those "X or Y" rules in grammar/English. Fewer or less, whom or who, etc. Might be my own ignorance, might be my teachers growing up using trainwrecks like "yous" and "alls."