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Mohamed Soufan 8379 Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
how to use few
Hey guys, I wrote on my website this sentence:
you are a few steps away from achieving your goal.
My friend told me that it's not correct.. It should be like that:
you are few steps away from achieving your goal.
So we shouldn't add 'a' when we talk about plural thing like 'Steps'
I'm really confused.. How can we use a few if we're talking about a single thing? I thought that few is for plural things not single.
Can you please explain to me?
Thank you!
you are a few steps away from achieving your goal.
My friend told me that it's not correct.. It should be like that:
you are few steps away from achieving your goal.
So we shouldn't add 'a' when we talk about plural thing like 'Steps'
I'm really confused.. How can we use a few if we're talking about a single thing? I thought that few is for plural things not single.
Can you please explain to me?
Thank you!
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Mohamed Soufan 8379: Y ou are a few steps away from achieving your goal. That's fine and natural, though you might think about adding just before a few a few = some few = not many. In your sentence, a few is more natural.
- Mohamed Soufan 8379: Y ou are a few steps away from achieving your goal.
- That's fine and natural, though you might think about adding just before a few a few = some few = not many.
- In your sentence, a few is more natural.
- If you want to stress the idea of 'not many', then use those words.
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Mohamed Soufan 8379: You are a few steps away from achieving your goal.That's fine and natural, though you might think about adding just before a few
a few = some
few = not many.
In your sentence, a few is more natural. If you want to stress the idea of 'not many', then use those words
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Thank you very much for the explanation. It was very helpful.
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