An amount of money: few or little?
Hi there,
In one of the textbooks I ran into the following sentence:
'You can rent a room here for as few as 500 pounds per month.' The author insists on 'little' being the only correct option.
Since the word 'pound' is countable - and it's plural in the above context - what's wrong with 'few pounds'?
Will any sum of money be treated as an uncountable noun and why?
Top answer
, as a unit. Twenty dollars is not much for that pair of gloves. ) CJ
- , as a unit.
- Twenty dollars is not much for that pair of gloves.
- ) CJ
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Even if the number of pounds or dollars or rubles is mentioned, the whole expression is treated as a single amount, i.e., as a unit.
Twenty dollars is not much for that pair of gloves. (Never 'are' and 'many'.)
CJ
0The author is correct. Use "much" and "little" when talking about gradable amounts of money. THat is the context of the example sentence.
But I use "few" with dollars when I'm thinking of single dollar bills.
He had only a few dollars in his wallet.
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