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Alex John Posted 12 years ago
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Can a person who drinks low liquids have higher blood density than a person who drinks less?
  

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Can a person who drinks a low amount of liquids have higher blood density than a person who drinks an even lower amount?

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Can a person who drinks a low amount of liquids have higher blood density than a person who drinks an even lower amount?
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Ok, excuse me I took mistake. I wanted to say:
Can a person who drinks low liquids have higher blood density than a person who drinks more?
2- Why should we use "a low amount" ? Why cannot we just use "low amount"?
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Alex John Can a person who drinks low liquids have higher blood density than a person who drinks less?
What do you mean by the "low liquids"?
The question should be formulated like that:

Can a person who drinks liquids of higher density have higher blood density than than a person who drinks liquids of lower density?

The answer is "Yes".
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Why should we use "a low amount" ? Why cannot we just use "low amount"?
Amount is a countable noun, so it needs a determiner, eg an article.

That's why we say eg 'a red chair' instead of just 'red chair'.
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So what about "An increase in demand" or "Increase in demand"
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Increase can sometimes be uncountable, but in most contexts I would expect 'an increase . . . '
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I checked it in Longman dictionary. AMOUNT is countable and uncountable. So we can use LOW AMOUNT.
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Do they give an example of an uncountable use of 'amount'?

You can't say 'He drinks low amount'.
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Yes, I got it. It's given a template as "a small, tiny ,etc. amount of sth"
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a small amount
two small amounts
three small amounts

countable!

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