Fewer versus less
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title:
Fewer versus less
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Fewer versus less is a debate in English grammar about the appropriate use of these two determiners. Linguistic prescriptivists usually say that fewer and not less should be used with countable nouns, and that less should be used only with uncountable nouns. This distinction was first tentatively suggested by the grammarian Robert Baker in 1770, and it was eventually presented as a rule by many grammarians since then. However, modern linguistics has shown that idiomatic past and current usage co
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Grammatical usage debate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fewer_versus_less
date created:
2007-01-17T04:45:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-02T04:03:58Z
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