nininaz
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Hello all,
Please consider the following context extracting from Swan, Practical English Usage:
“Nouns can be dropped after less and Fewer if the meaning is clear: e.g : Some people go to church, but less/fewer than 20 years ago. “
Now, I have two questions about it:
The first one :
What is the grammatical role of 'less or fewer' on the sentence extracted from Swan book ?
The second one :
Can we revise the original sentence ( mentioned above) as bellow (In case noun cannot be dropped) ?
Is 'people' dropped in the original sentence or 'go'?
‘ Some people go to church, but less/fewer people than 20 years ago.’
If not, what is the correct sentence when noun(people) is not dropped ?
Note: I have to say that I know the fact that ‘less’ is used with countable and non countable nouns in only informal English.
Thanks all.
Please consider the following context extracting from Swan, Practical English Usage:
“Nouns can be dropped after less and Fewer if the meaning is clear: e.g : Some people go to church, but less/fewer than 20 years ago. “
Now, I have two questions about it:
The first one :
What is the grammatical role of 'less or fewer' on the sentence extracted from Swan book ?
The second one :
Can we revise the original sentence ( mentioned above) as bellow (In case noun cannot be dropped) ?
Is 'people' dropped in the original sentence or 'go'?
‘ Some people go to church, but less/fewer people than 20 years ago.’
If not, what is the correct sentence when noun(people) is not dropped ?
Note: I have to say that I know the fact that ‘less’ is used with countable and non countable nouns in only informal English.
Thanks all.
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