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With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theater Company is in danger of losing its building. (A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer (B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less (C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer (D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less (E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
31 Mar 2009, 04:21
IMO E countable-->few both are countable nouns less patience less joy but few cricketers
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
31 Mar 2009, 05:03
A?
sales refers to an amount of money (e.g. i have less money than you do)
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
31 Mar 2009, 05:39
Should be A
Both 'Less than' and 'fewer' is rightly used.
Less than is used to show decrease in value and lower than in physical level. For example water level is lower than
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
31 Mar 2009, 06:17
A is OA.
But why not C? C looks okay to me.
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
31 Mar 2009, 06:53
Not sure whether lesser than is apt term here. Lesser is used an adj. For ex: Lesser quantity. Again, there may be better explanation for your question. Economist wrote: A is OA.
But why not C? C looks okay to me.
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With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theater Company is in danger of losing its building.
(A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer IMO A). Have you gone through Manhattan SC (Odds and Ends) book? - It is clearly mentioned in this book about this trap. Be careful with unit nouns.......such as dollars or gallons....By their nature they are countable (example: one dollar, two dollar etc) and so they work with most of the countable modifiers. However, unit nous represents the uncountable quantities: money, volume (one money, two money etc). As a result we use "less" with unit nouns when we really want to indicate something about underlying quantity. We have less than twenty dollars.........ex. If we write we have fewer than twenty dollars that means (20 piece of papers)....so whenever underlying quantity is uncountable then use less than (especially in case of money and volume).
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
01 Apr 2009, 02:53
Thanks for the info . My question was more regarding 'less' vs 'lesser' But I think lesser should be followed by a noun...makes sense. patedhav wrote: Economist wrote: SCtest3-7
With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theater Company is in danger of losing its building.
(A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer IMO A). Have you gone through Manhattan SC (Odds and Ends) book? - It is clearly mentioned in this book about this trap. Be careful with unit nouns.......such as dollars or gallons....By their nature they are countable (example: one dollar, two dollar etc) and so they work with most of the countable modifiers. However, unit nous represents the uncountable quantities: money, volume (one money, two money etc). As a result we use "less" with unit nouns when we really want to indicate something about underlying quantity. We have less than twenty dollars.........ex. If we write we have fewer than twenty dollars that means (20 piece of papers)....so whenever underlying quantity is uncountable then use less than (especially in case of money and volume). |
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
01 Apr 2009, 15:26
Just want to clarify you cannot use "lesser" I think even you have noun after that...it is not idiomatic. For comparision between two items we still use "less" (less than).....lesser than is not valid as per my understanding.
Please discuss if you have read from good sources.
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
22 Apr 2010, 16:14
A is correct
sale is uncountable so less than is okay and subscriber is fewer as they are countable
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
22 Apr 2010, 18:36
A straight forward one. OA is A: less for non- count (water, air etc) fewer for counts: people; knives, plates etc
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
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Economist wrote: With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theater Company is in danger of losing its building. (A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer (B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less (C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer (D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less (E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer IMO A this is a "less than" and fewer problem Ofcourse we cannot use lesser as this is not idiomatic As per GMAT rules- it is mentioned in OG "Less than" refers to continuous quantity => sales/revenues less than three hundred dollars - it is a continuous thing "Fewer" refers to a specific number which is countable => fewer new subscribers => they are countable Hope this helps
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
23 Apr 2010, 06:12
In addition to it.. we are comparing total sales with a number which is 300 thousand dollars.. its not right to say 2 is lesser than 3.. similarly total sales is less than 300, not lesser than 300 or even fewer than 300 (countable quantity)
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
23 Apr 2010, 07:57
@nilesh376 You gave a valid reason why A is having correct usage. Even I fall for trap and selected C. nilesh376 wrote: In addition to it.. we are comparing total sales with a number which is 300 thousand dollars.. its not right to say 2 is lesser than 3.. similarly total sales is less than 300, not lesser than 300 or even fewer than 300 (countable quantity)
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
06 Sep 2010, 08:53
good question. I fell for C too.
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
26 Apr 2011, 08:11
+1 A Money ($ XX dollars) is uncountable. Why? I don't know. It's not my language! Just memorize it and be happy  Suscribers are countable.
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
26 Apr 2011, 13:17
The strategy to tackle this problem is using odds and ends concept of Manhattan GMAT ... Correct answer A
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
26 Apr 2011, 13:54
A is the answer, pretty straight forward
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
26 Apr 2011, 15:55
A straightforward "A" here 
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Re: Sales of + Fewer? [#permalink]
26 Apr 2011, 22:43
Completly agree with A Posted from my mobile device 
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