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How do you use fewest?
The least and the fewest
- The least is used before uncountable nouns. It is the superlative of little.
- The least can be used without a noun if the meaning is clear from the context.
- The fewest is the superlative form of few.
- The least can be used before adjectives.
- Not in the least means ‘not at all’.
What is an example of a few sentence?
I have a few ideas. Let’s have a few more drinks before dinner. You’re out of town, you have a few snorts at dinner, it’s a hot night, there’s a beach.
What is the difference between least and fewest?
“Least” can be used to mean to the lowest extent. If you say someone has done the least amount of work on a project, you can also say they worked the fewest hours. Note how the wording changes. “Least” is still an adverb describing the work done, and “fewest” is still describing the noun, hours.
What is between least and most?
As determiners the difference between least and most is that least is (little);the smallest amount of [something while most is superlative form of much.
How many is a few sentences?
While many would agree that few means three or more, the dictionary definition is, “not many but more than one.” So, a few cannot be one, but it can be as low as two.
Can we say the least number?
We never say “least number of something” as less/least is for uncountable nouns and money, time, weight, distance, population.
Is the word ” fewest ” an adverb or an adjective?
“Fewest” is an adjective, not an adverb; it applies only to count nouns, so it would not be usable in this sentence. Compare the following two sentences: Our family has the fewest people of any in the village. She is the least polite person in our family.
Which is the best word least, lowest or fewest?
Fewest number is not the best option. Few describes the thing being counted, not the number. If there are few people present, there are a small number of them. “Our household produces the least amount of rubbish of those in our street.”
Which is the best way to concise a sentence?
To get more strategies for sentence combining, see the handout on Sentence Variety. Wordy: Ludwig’s castles are an astounding marriage of beauty and madness. By his death, he had commissioned three castles. Concise: Ludwig’s three castles are an astounding marriage of beauty and madness.
Where are the fewest people in the world?
The West Coast has the most craft breweries and the Deep South has the fewest. It has the highest carbon content, the fewest impurities, and the highest energy density of all types of coal except for graphite. Most Sami live in Norway followed by Sweden and Finland, while the fewest Sami live in Russia.