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veen  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Congressional Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for Obama on Trade Pact

Wait - what's the difference?





mk  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's considered most correct to use 'amount' for non-countable nouns, like 'soup'. Just as 'how much' is used rather than 'how many'.

You are given a certain amount of soup and use a certain number of words. Likewise: How much soup did you eat? How many words did you write?

veen  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I knew about much/many and few/little, but I didn't think number/amount was a similar distinction.

thenewgreen  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I didn't either. Thanks mk, that was actually helpful.

user-inactivated  ·  3509 days ago  ·  link  ·  

i wrote three soups and ate a can of words