I think the discussion could easily move into a debate as to what is incorrect as opposed to what is inferior, all things considered. It reminds me of a discussion I had concerning the usage of "elevation" and "altitude".
Can sand be counted if you are referring to different types of sand? Like different colors of sand in a shop that sells sand for example, "we have fewer sands than the competition" for example?
So whatever the thing is that you are referring to can be counted, then yes. So you were talking about colors. So yep, you would say, "We have fewer colors of sand than that store over there". Actually, if your store is the more option one, you say, " They have fewer colors of sand than we do." Or just avoid it altogether and side with the more side! We have more colors than they do. Just don't use "sands" unless referring to the hotel or something or sands through the hourglass.lol Figure out the thing you are trying to quantify or trying to target the side of. COLORS is that thing. fewer colors.
Supermarkets use "10 items or less". They don't say "fewer". We seem to accept it don't we? ALso, there are exceptions: time, distance , money, and weight .. use less or "less than"...even though these things are countable. Ex. I will be there in less than 20 minutes. I weigh less than 200 lbs. Do we say, "I weigh fewer than 200 lbs." Nope. So those are exceptions. Come on... why are you discussing if we say, "fewer sun"?? Also, people say, "more or less", not more or fewer. This video could be more impactful if exceptions were covered.
My granddad lived in Germany in the 40’s, all he ever talked about was how much he loved the fewer. On his deathbed he said everything he ever did was for the fewer. I never knew he was so passionate about grammar..
Please, make some videos on more difficult subjects. This one is just a cake. For what audience are these videos? For elementary ESL students or school drop-outs? How about tackling The Future Perfect? One book called Advanced Grammar in Use published in 1999 (page 28) gives the following example. 'I'm sure that his behaviour will soon have been forgotten'. I know that it is British English, but this sentence still sounds very strange to my ears. Is it ever used? As I understand, people rather say 'his behaviour will soon be forgotten'.
The example from that book isn't a very good one as forget is a strange verb in itself and it is being used in the passive voice - been forgotten (by everyone). The future perfect is generally used with a duration but is rarely used in practice as it is quite wordy and there are usually other ways to express the same idea. Consider: (1) Come September I will have been working here for ten years. (2) September will mark my tenth year with the company. I think the second of these two constructions is the one the majority of people would use to express this idea. My example is actually the future perfect progressive but it's the same kind of idea.
It is true that people use less and fewer interchangeably, but I disagree with the statement at the end that "The only reasoning anyone can find is this one person's reasoning from 1770." "Less" is to "more" as "few" is to "many." That's why speakers say "Was it less or was it more?" and "Only a few out of the many participants" whereas almost no one would ever say "Was it less or was it many?" or "Only a few out of the more participants." The words denote different concepts. Less and more denote volume or intensity of a single thing, while few and many denote quantity. That is what I understand Baker to mean when he says "strictly proper."
More and many are not equivalents in the same way. Many is only used with countable nouns (the uncountable equivalent is much) and more can be used with both
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I think the discussion could easily move into a debate as to what is incorrect as opposed to what is inferior, all things considered. It reminds me of a discussion I had concerning the usage of "elevation" and "altitude".
I like khan Academy! You teach me so much stuff!
I was waiting for the pun from David: "With grammar, sometimes, less is more..."
Next lesson, please explain to me when I should use start versus begin?
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Also from what I remember culture pronounces kAltcher
Can sand be counted if you are referring to different types of sand? Like different colors of sand in a shop that sells sand for example, "we have fewer sands than the competition" for example?
GRAINS of sand can be counted.
I know, but that's not what im asking haha.
So whatever the thing is that you are referring to can be counted, then yes. So you were talking about colors.
So yep, you would say, "We have fewer colors of sand than that store over there". Actually, if your store is the more option one, you say, " They have fewer colors of sand than we do." Or just avoid it altogether and side with the more side! We have more colors than they do. Just don't use "sands" unless referring to the hotel or something or sands through the hourglass.lol Figure out the thing you are trying to quantify or trying to target the side of. COLORS is that thing. fewer colors.
Less hours of sun expo. Is because there is a count n. Before the mass n.
Hours is countable. Fewer hours (of sun exposure).
Supermarkets use "10 items or less". They don't say "fewer". We seem to accept it don't we? ALso, there are exceptions: time, distance , money, and weight .. use less or "less than"...even though these things are countable. Ex. I will be there in less than 20 minutes. I weigh less than 200 lbs. Do we say, "I weigh fewer than 200 lbs." Nope. So those are exceptions. Come on... why are you discussing if we say, "fewer sun"?? Also, people say, "more or less", not more or fewer. This video could be more impactful if exceptions were covered.
My granddad lived in Germany in the 40’s, all he ever talked about was how much he loved the fewer. On his deathbed he said everything he ever did was for the fewer. I never knew he was so passionate about grammar..
Please, make some videos on more difficult subjects. This one is just a cake. For what audience are these videos? For elementary ESL students or school drop-outs?
How about tackling The Future Perfect? One book called Advanced Grammar in Use published in 1999 (page 28) gives the following example. 'I'm sure that his behaviour will soon have been forgotten'. I know that it is British English, but this sentence still sounds very strange to my ears. Is it ever used? As I understand, people rather say 'his behaviour will soon be forgotten'.
The example from that book isn't a very good one as forget is a strange verb in itself and it is being used in the passive voice - been forgotten (by everyone).
The future perfect is generally used with a duration but is rarely used in practice as it is quite wordy and there are usually other ways to express the same idea. Consider:
(1) Come September I will have been working here for ten years.
(2) September will mark my tenth year with the company.
I think the second of these two constructions is the one the majority of people would use to express this idea. My example is actually the future perfect progressive but it's the same kind of idea.
It is true that people use less and fewer interchangeably, but I disagree with the statement at the end that "The only reasoning anyone can find is this one person's reasoning from 1770."
"Less" is to "more" as "few" is to "many." That's why speakers say "Was it less or was it more?" and "Only a few out of the many participants" whereas almost no one would ever say "Was it less or was it many?" or "Only a few out of the more participants." The words denote different concepts. Less and more denote volume or intensity of a single thing, while few and many denote quantity. That is what I understand Baker to mean when he says "strictly proper."
More and many are not equivalents in the same way. Many is only used with countable nouns (the uncountable equivalent is much) and more can be used with both