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Chivalry Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Is the grammar of this sentence even correct?
"If without the Total Artifical Heart transplant surgeon, he'd have less than two weeks to live."
I assume that this is a correct sentence since it's from the Readers' Digest,
but shouldn't it be "fewer than two weeks" instead of less than two two weeks since week is a definitely countable noun?
thank you for your help in advance.
I assume that this is a correct sentence since it's from the Readers' Digest,
but shouldn't it be "fewer than two weeks" instead of less than two two weeks since week is a definitely countable noun?
thank you for your help in advance.
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I have a problem with the first part of the sentence. " Less than is correct, because it it talking about an amount of time (uncountable) with an upper limit, not a particular number of weeks.
- I have a problem with the first part of the sentence.
- " Less than is correct, because it it talking about an amount of time (uncountable) with an upper limit, not a particular number of weeks.
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I have a problem with the first part of the sentence.
"If without the Total Artifical Heart transplant surgeon, he'd have less than two weeks to live."
It should be something like this:
The surgeon said, "Without the Total Artifical Heart transplant he'd have less than two weeks to live."
Less than is correct, because it it talking
"If without the Total Artifical Heart transplant surgeon, he'd have less than two weeks to live."
It should be something like this:
The surgeon said, "Without the Total Artifical Heart transplant he'd have less than two weeks to live."
Less than is correct, because it it talking
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