Is this sentence ambigous?
If there are 4 countries: China, Japan, Korea, Russia, Is this sentence below ambiguous?
Except China, the rest of countries won less than 60 medals in total.
Is this sentence can be interpreted in 2 ways like below?
1. Except China, "each" of countries won less than 60 medals in total.
2. Except China, the number of medals won by all of the rest of countries is less than 60 medals in total.
Top answer
It says "in total", so the interpretation in 1 (with 'each') doesn't really work. And, by the way, it's fewer medals , not less medals . fewer goes with countable nouns.
- It says "in total", so the interpretation in 1 (with 'each') doesn't really work.
- And, by the way, it's fewer medals , not less medals .
- fewer goes with countable nouns.
- CJ
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It says "in total", so the interpretation in 1 (with 'each') doesn't really work.
And, by the way, it's fewer medals, not less medals. fewer goes with countable nouns.
CJ
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