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- Fewer_vs._less abstract "According to prescriptive grammar, \"fewer\" should be used (instead of \"less\") with nouns for countable objects and concepts (discretely quantifiable nouns or count nouns). According to this rule, \"less\" should be used only with a grammatically singular noun (including mass nouns) and only when they suggest \"a combination into a unit, a group, or an aggregation: less than $50 (a sum of money); less than three miles (a unit of distance)\". However, descriptive grammarians (who describe language as actually used) point out that this rule does not correctly describe the most common usage of today or the past and in fact arose as an incorrect generalization of a personal preference expressed by a grammarian in 1770.This rule can be seen in the examples \"there is less flour in this canister\" and \"there are fewer cups (grains, pounds, bags, etc.) of flour in this canister\", which are based on the reasoning that flour is uncountable whereas the unit used to measure the flour (cup etc.) is countable. Nevertheless, even most prescriptivists accept the most common usage \"there are less cups of flour in this canister\" and prescribe the rule addition that \"less\" should be used with units of measurement (other examples: \"less than 10 pounds/dollars\"). Prescriptivists would however consider only \"fewer cups of coffee\" to be correct in a sentence such as \"there are fewer cups of coffee on the table now\", where the cups are countable separate objects, although most people now and in the past use \"less\" even in such cases. In addition, \"less\" is recommended in front of counting nouns that denote distance, amount, or time. For example, \"we go on holiday in fewer than four weeks\" and \"he can run the 100 m in fewer than ten seconds\" are not advised. Some prescriptivists argue that even the extremely rare and completely unidiomatic \"one fewer\" should be used instead of \"one less\" (both when used alone or together with a singular, discretely quantifiable noun as in \"there is one fewer cup on this table\"), but Merriam–Webster's Dictionary of English Usage clearly states that common usage dictates \"one less\" in all cases.".
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- Fewer_vs._less wikiPageWikiLinkText "''less'' or ''fewer''".
- Fewer_vs._less wikiPageWikiLinkText "''less'' versus ''fewer''".
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- Fewer_vs._less comment "According to prescriptive grammar, \"fewer\" should be used (instead of \"less\") with nouns for countable objects and concepts (discretely quantifiable nouns or count nouns). According to this rule, \"less\" should be used only with a grammatically singular noun (including mass nouns) and only when they suggest \"a combination into a unit, a group, or an aggregation: less than $50 (a sum of money); less than three miles (a unit of distance)\".".
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