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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
One adjective for two nouns (uncountable and countable)
"Recently, graduate students have little experience or skills."
in this case "little" modifies the noun "experience" as it is used for uncountable nouns. However, the noun "skills" would need an adjective such a "few because it is plural." Reducing the use of adjectives is common practice, but wouldn't it be necessary in this case of a plural noun??
anyone with an explanation??
in this case "little" modifies the noun "experience" as it is used for uncountable nouns. However, the noun "skills" would need an adjective such a "few because it is plural." Reducing the use of adjectives is common practice, but wouldn't it be necessary in this case of a plural noun??
anyone with an explanation??
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You are right.
Better English is
"Recent graduate students have little experience and few skills."
Clive
Better English is
"Recent graduate students have little experience and few skills."
Clive
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Thanks Clive for considering this problem. However, the textbook has it written like this so i need to explain it to my students here in Japan. Either the grammar is wrong and "few should have been used or if there is some kind of explanation I could sell to the children that would be best...
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Your own explanation seems satisfactory to me.
The word 'skills' is a countable noun, so you need to say 'few skills'.
Offer your students a simpler and more concrete example.
eg
Consider
The word 'skills' is a countable noun, so you need to say 'few skills'.
Offer your students a simpler and more concrete example.
eg
Consider
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