Question

correct the sentence- There are less cakes now?​

Answer 1

Given :- correct the sentence- There are less cakes now? .

Answer :- There is less cake now .

Explanation :-

• Cake is used as a singular word . so, helping verb will be used as singular 'is' .

Note :-

→ Chocolates or cake are on offer.

→ Chocolates or cake is on offer.

here both sentence are correct.

• In first Chocolates are plural so we used plural helping verb .
• In second sentence using the Proximity Rule, the verb becomes singular because cake which is the nearest thing, is singular.

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Answer 2

correct the sentence- There are less cakes now?

There is less cake now.

(or)

There are few cakes now.

• We use "Less" for uncountable things whereas we use "few or fewer" for countable things.

• If the cake is considered as a whole thing then it will be uncountable. we need to change the sentence as:

"There is less cake now".

• In case if there is more than one cake then it will be countable. we need to change the sentence as:

" There are few cakes now".

• we use "is" for singular nouns whereas we use "are" for plural nouns.

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