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Gigilian Nguyen Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Could you please help me with a little and a few?

Hi everyone,
I've just written two sentences and I wonder whether they are correct. Could you please help me check them? I'll be very grateful.
1. There are a few candies in my hand.
2. There is a little sugar is each spoon.
I look forward to your replies.
Thanks a lot,
GN
  

Top answer

They are correct (except for the typo in 2). Rover

  • They are correct (except for the typo in 2).
  • Rover
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They are correct (except for the typo in 2).

Rover
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Rover_KEThey are correct (except for the typo in 2).Rover
Dear Rover,
Thank you very much for taking a look at them. Actually, I don't understand what the typo in 2 means. Would you please explain it to me?
Thanks in advance,
GN
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Gigilian Nguyen2. There is a little sugar isn each spoon.
I think Rover_KE meant this. Also typo means a small mistake in the way something has been typed.
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Hi Nugso,
Thank you so much, I get it now.
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Gigilian Nguyen2. There is a little sugar is each spoon.
The typo is "in". Sugar, like powder, water and air etc, is uncountable. So " a little sugar" is incorrect. But you can say " a little bit of sugar in each spoon.
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Hi ! Gigilian .My name is Driss I'm from Morocco .I think we use a few with countable nouns and a little with uncountable nouns .
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Hi Gigilian
Just for you information:
There is difference between little and a little , and also between few and a few.
without a, 'little' and 'few' usually have rather negative meanings. they may subtly suggest "not as much/many as one would like" , "not as much/many as expected" and similar ideas.
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Hello innertide. I'd like to ask you this;
innertide- Cactuses need little water. (not much water)
Little/Few have negative meanings. But Cactuses need little watter.( By saying this I understand it as cactuses don't get watered enough) Could you please explain it?
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Dear Nugso ,
In my understanding, in an informal style we generally prefer not much/ many. by this reasoning we can simply restate the sentence as :
- Castuses need not much water. (meaning : they live in habitats subject to drought. so they have many ways of adaptations to conserve water.)

Hamed

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grammarfreak Sugar, like powder, water and air etc, is uncountable. So " a little sugar" is incorrect. But you can say " a little bit of sugar in each spoon.
"A little sugar" means "a little bit of sugar".

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