Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: The number of people flying first class on domestic flights rose sharp

Hiavigutman - q oncountable vsuncountable.

The SC sentence talks about two numericals, namely

(i) number of people flying first class on domestic flights
(ii) Increase (of/in) the previous year

Per my understanding, both (i) and (ii) arecountable nouns.

Reason - (i) and (ii) ARE INTEGERS only. Noncountable nouns are items on a countinous spectrum (volume, area, amount -- all of these can be decimals)

However, (i) and (ii) are integers only - hence i thought (i) and (ii)
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