Fewer is for countable nouns, like 4 apples is fewer than 10 apples.
Less is for uncountable nouns, like Lake Placid has less water than Lake Superior.
It can be confusing because you could find a way to express the same idea using either, like Lake Placid has fewer drops of water, or fewer liters of water than Lake Superior, be sure “drops” and “liters” are discrete countable nouns. But water as a noun covers any amount. Similarly less snow versus fewer inches of snow, or less money versus fewer dollars.
Sorry. I was making a little joke. I genuinely believe people were down voting you because they don’t believe that the American military is a terrorist organization. But since I agree with you, I was trying to come up with another explanation.
For the record, I down voted him because he’s a twat who both acknowledged that his comment was ambiguous by editing it while also downvoting me for being confused by said ambiguity.
I don’t care about downvotes.what is the difference between using less and fewer?
Fewer is for countable nouns, like 4 apples is fewer than 10 apples.
Less is for uncountable nouns, like Lake Placid has less water than Lake Superior.
It can be confusing because you could find a way to express the same idea using either, like Lake Placid has fewer drops of water, or fewer liters of water than Lake Superior, be sure “drops” and “liters” are discrete countable nouns. But water as a noun covers any amount. Similarly less snow versus fewer inches of snow, or less money versus fewer dollars.
Downvoting for grammatical errors is weird but anyway not a big deal. I would not downvote people who do the same errors in my mother tongue
Sorry. I was making a little joke. I genuinely believe people were down voting you because they don’t believe that the American military is a terrorist organization. But since I agree with you, I was trying to come up with another explanation.
For the record, I down voted him because he’s a twat who both acknowledged that his comment was ambiguous by editing it while also downvoting me for being confused by said ambiguity.
All good