woohoo921 wrote:
Hi experts, I realize that this question is discussed in great detail on this form.
However, I ended up not choosing D due to the "fewer than" appearing right after the comma instead of the "400 Sumatran rhinos" appearing right after the comma.
Furthermore, I am confused on using ???less??? with unit nouns when you really want to indicate something about the underlying quantity.
Manhattan Prep provides an example of saying it would be correct to say: ???We have less than 20 DOLLARS??? ??? the amount of money, regardless of its form totals less than $20. I would be so appreciative for more examples.
Money is a tricky one, but if you have an account worth $1,000 and the value of that account decreases by 1/3, how much is your account worth? Technically $666.666666...
In that sense, the
amount of money you have isn't really countable, exactly. Instead, it's more like water in a tank: the changes in water or account value are continuous, not discrete.
But if we're talking about Sacagawea coins, for example, then we are talking about discrete, countable things. You have a certain
number of those coins, and you can't really have 6.666666.... of them, unless you decide to start chopping them up for some reason.
As for your first question, you probably would have been okay with something like this:
"Occupying a small fraction of the species’ former range, 400 Sumatran rhinos survive on the Malay peninsula and on the islands of Sumatra and Borneo."
The opening modifier describes the 400 rhinos, so that's not a problem. But even "400" and "Sumatran" are modifiers. So do we have to change it to "rhinos numbering 400 from Sumatra" so that the thing after the comma is the noun itself? Nah -- it's fine to include a few modifiers with the noun, and "fewer than" is just another modifier.
In other words, if you're okay with the "Sumatran" modifier, then you should be okay with the "fewer than 400" modifier, too.
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