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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Little vs Few

Few or Little

- How come there are this little/few reservations for the day?

Do you leave BY or not?

- What time should we check out (by)?

How would you say this please?

- We had fallen behind schedule, but we worked fast and made up for lost time. (is MADE UP FOR LOST TIME right?)

Thank you
  

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- How come there are this little/ few reservations for the day? -- "little" is for non-countable things; "few" is for countable things. - What time should we check out (by)?

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  • - How come there are this little/ few reservations for the day?
  • -- "little" is for non-countable things; "few" is for countable things.
  • - What time should we check out (by)?
  • -- "by" asks for the latest checkout time.
  • - We had fallen behind schedule, but we worked fast and made up for lost time.
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- How come there are this little/few reservations for the day? -- "little" is for non-countable things; "few" is for countable things.

- What time should we check out (by)? -- "by" asks for the latest checkout time.


- We had fallen behind schedule, but we worked fast and made up for lost time. -- OK (is MADE UP FOR LOST TIME right? -- Yes)


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