lessthancountablenouns

2020年10月22日 — Less is used with mass nouns or uncountable nouns like milk, hair, rice, oil time, money and so on. Fewer is used with count nouns or countable ...

2022年10月26日 — Use “fewer” when referring to a number of something. This will always be a sentence with a plural countable noun (i.e. something that can be ...

Less has historically been used in English with countable nouns, but a distinction between the use of fewer and less is first recorded in the 18th century.

Fewer and less are often used incorrectly. There's a popular rule that teaches fewer is for countable nouns and less is for uncountable nouns. But this rule has ...

We use fewer with countable nouns when we compare two things, to say that one thing is smaller in number than another thing. I have fewer books than you. There ...

Generally, fewer is used when the number of things is counted (fewer problems) whereas less is used when the number is measured (less trouble or less time) ...

2019年5月17日 — Fewer means “not as many.” We use fewer with countable nouns like cookies. Cookie Monster was told to eat fewer cookies. Less means “not as much ...

4 天前 — We usually use less with uncountable nouns. We use fewer with plural nouns: I do less work at weekends than I used to. Better cycle routes would ...

2022年1月26日 — And here's a tip: in general, if the noun is plural, use fewer; if it's singular, use less: Fewer treadmills line the floor of the gym. Less ...