What’s the difference between fewer and less
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What’s the Difference between Less and Fewer?
Catherine Traffis
Catherine Traffis
· Grammar
Why is it so easy to confuse less and fewer? Perhaps because they both represent the opposite of the comparative adjective more. Luckily, the conundrum of less vs. fewer has a solution that is simple to remember. It involves deducing whether fewer or less will be working with a countable or uncountable noun in your intended sentence.
In English, we use the same word, more, for a greater number and a greater amount/quantity. There is little doubt about when to use more.
ex-Cookie Monster has demanded more cookies.
Could you give Cookie Monster more milk to wash those down with?
Cookies is a countable noun; it is possible to count cookies. Milk, on the other hand, is an uncountable noun; it is a liquid that we measure in terms of volume. Uncountable nouns are always singular.