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Dileepa Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Latter and Former

I've found following sentence in a website which is describing a table. Please someone tell me what is the meaning of "latter" and "former" in following sentence.


Over half of Canadian and American adults bought film tickets, the latter at 59.7% of the population and the former at 52.6%.

  

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the latter = American adults the former = Canadian adults

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  • the latter = American adults the former = Canadian adults
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the latter = American adults
the former = Canadian adults

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