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For quantifying discrete objects, you should use "fewer", not "less". "Less" is used for aggregates, continuous media, and numeric values. So, "fewer people", b
by JabavuAdams 9y ago
For quantifying discrete objects, you should use "fewer", not "less". "Less" is used for aggregates, continuous media, and numeric values. So, "fewer people", but "less water".
- Voyage_wanderer 9y agoThanks for the clarification. However I’m a truck driver, I passed my English requirements for CDl. :)
- tialaramex 9y agoYou needn't do this. Some random bloke thought it'd be a good idea years ago, wrote it down in a book. A certain type of pedant says to themselves, oh somebody wrote it down in a book - that's the rule them. Nope. You can't use fewer in some places, but the insistence that if you can use it then you must is an zombie rule. If "less" sounds right it's fine.
- JabavuAdams 9y agoThanks for that, but it doesn't sound right.