Name ______________________ Date ________________________
Fewer or less
Remember: fewer is for things you can count, and less is for things you cannot count.
Fewer is used with countable nouns e.g: people, animals, chairs, shoes.
Less is used for uncountable nouns: sugar, water or sand or abstract nouns: money,
happiness, snow, idealism.
Less is also used with adjectives and adverbs.
Fill in gaps using fewer or less.
1. Water has ______fewer_____ calories than milk.
2. The doctor advised the children to eat ____fewer____ sweets.
3. There were ____fewer____ days below freezing last winter.
4. Fiona drank _____less_____ water than Ben.
5. There are ___fewer___ cars on the roads in this small town.
6. David has ___less___ interest in gardening than Millie.
7. The boys did ____fewer____ exercises than the girls.
8. These days people are buying ____less____ newspapers.
9. The footballers must drink ___fewer___ fizzy drinks.
10. Those women wear ____less____ makeup on weekdays.
11. The students have ____fewer___ days to finish the project.
12. She has much ____less____ patience than her husband.
Now write FIVE sentences using fewer and FIVE sentences using less.
The boy had fewer rubbers than his felow classmates.
She had used less of her time in playing than reading.
They had fewer days to complete the big tasks.
My dad has a lot less more idealism than my mom
There were fewer people at the fair than last year.
My dad uses less facecream on Saturdays and Sundays.
She had a fewer amount of pencils than she had yesterday.
I had less time to complete the work from before.
She had fewer ideas than Martin.
He didn’t realize that he had less time but he the book is due today.
5.3 fewer or less
