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OG13-9. In 1979 lack of rain reduced India's rice production to about 41 million tons, nearly 25 percent less than those of the 1978 harvest. (A) less than those of the 1978 harvest (B) less than the 1978 harvest(答案) (C) less than 1978 (D) fewer than 1978 (E) fewer than that of India's 1978 harvest 我的疑问: rice production是不可数学名词，但后面 to about 41 million tons是可数的啊？
其他 prep上2条涉及less than的疑问
When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950s, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.
A. there are less than one-quarter that many
B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many
C. there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount
D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount
E. it is less than one-quarter of that amount
这条题目的解答: Drive-ins are countable, so they take countable modifiers. Eliminate A, D, and E because they use "less" instead of "fewer."
Between B and C, "amount" is used for uncountable nouns (compare "amount of sand" to "number of books"), so that eliminates C.
I'd go with B. It correctly uses "fewer" and "many" to refer to a countable noun, "drive-ins." 这里明确说了, less than 不能修饰复数.
Less than 35 years after the release of African honeybees outside Sao Paulo, Brazil, their
descendants, popularly known as killer bees, had migrated as far north as southern Texas.
但在这条里面,却出现了less than修饰复数.
所以,我非常困惑less than到底什么时候修饰复数什么时候修饰单数?
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