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When you're at the grocery store and you're
checking out have you ever seen an express
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lane with the phrase: 10 items or less.
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That's actually incorrect grammar.
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You use 'less' with a noun you can't count. If we're saying 10, that's a number, we can count it.
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We can count items. Don't use less, use fewer. You can use this lane if you have fewer than 10 items.
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I should eat less chocolate. Here chocolate is
not a noun that we can count, we want to use less.
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Now that I'm a mom I have less free time.
Not 'fewer free time'. I'm able to teach fewer classes.
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Not 'less classes'. Classes, we can
count that. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 classes. Use 'fewer'.
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