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GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: with total population of less than two hundred and fewer

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ankitmining wrote:

Bkimball

I couldn't understand the usage of "less" here. I frequently commit this mistake.....

Any thumb rule. Also I have clear idea of countable and un-countable nouns.


When comparing numbers, "less" is used (the number itself is uncountable). "Population" (unlike "person / people") is a number and hence uncountable. One can count people, but not population - it is meaningless to say 1 population, 2 populations etc. On the other hand,people/ person
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