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Originally Posted by Aamish Bhatti
For goodness' sake leave me alone.
She is more intelligent between the two.
Whom do you want to see?
Let Sabiha and me go there.
We saw much less films this year than the last year.
Ye tukka mara hai... 
Between you and me, he is a cheat.
The climate of Multan is better than that of Lahore.
I only did do two sums.
Last part of the book is very difficult.
There is little truth in your statement. |
Hey,
Okay so the correction for the sentence: We saw
much less films than last years should be: We saw
fewer films this year than last year.
Reasoning: fewer vs much less: traditional rule is that few is used for countable nouns or plural nouns and less is used for uncountable nouns or singular nouns.
Examples:
Singular: Less
Candy is . . . less candy
Water is . . . less water
Potato salad is: less potato salad
Plural: Few
M&Ms are . . . fewer M&Ms
Glasses of water are . . . fewer glasses of water
Potatoes are . . . fewer potatoes
Exception to this rule ['Can you count it: Yes: use few; No: use less]
time, money, and weight: all of them are used with less.
[Source:
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/edu...-versus-fewer].
2) She is more intelligent of the two
I am baffled by this one, I can't identify the error.
In Exploring the world of English a similar sentence has been corrected by identifying an error in the use of comparative adjectives;
"Incorrect: From the two he is clever.
Correct: He is the more cleverer of the two.
He is the clever of the two" (451).
Now, using this logic the sentence may be corrected as follows:
She is
the more intelligent of the two
Between the two is incorrect, it does not indicate comparison and sounds wrong.
If anyone has a verifiable correction for this sentence [a teacher told you it was correct] please post it. Thanks.
Regards,