To: bruinbirdman
Using “less” when one means “fewer”.
“There were less people at the party then we expected.”
“Less” is a description for volume, nor a description for discrete units.
40 posted on
05/29/2007 3:27:42 AM PDT by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: gitmo
Confusing the words, between and among. (They are not synonyms)
I could go on and on with this.
How about spelling / usage? (Your / you're)
45 posted on
05/29/2007 3:30:41 AM PDT by
don-o
(“I don`t expect Politicians to solve anyones problems...The world owes us nothing” Bob Dylan)
To: gitmo
68 posted on
05/29/2007 4:02:03 AM PDT by
DB
To: gitmo
Americans are losing the distinction between “take” (applicable from the starting point) and “bring” (to be used in transit or at the destination).
One should not say he is going to “bring it back to where he got it,” but rather one will “take it back to where he got it,” and once in transit can say he has undertaken to “bring it back to where he got it.”
329 posted on
05/29/2007 10:46:41 AM PDT by
Petronski
(Fred!)
To: gitmo
“There were less people at the party then [sic] we expected.” They might be talking about the same number of people, only skinnier. Then you wouldn't have fewer people, but you would have less people.
437 posted on
05/29/2007 4:14:59 PM PDT by
BykrBayb
("We will not be silent. We are your bad conscience. The White Rose will give you no rest." Þ)
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