• freagle@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    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.

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      1 month ago

      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

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        1 month ago

        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.