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Feb 20, 2011 01:48 by merendisfavorite5 comments
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*you're
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@mithila: and *were *fewer *night... these mistakes drive me mad!
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@merendis: 'was' and 'less' both work fine here.
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@mithila: They have become the common usage, but because the first statement is contrary to fact, it should be subjunctive, which only presents itself in English as "was" becoming "were". "Less" should only be used for uncountable nouns such as "sugar" "moss" "dirt" "fun" etc. and "fewer" applies to countable nouns such as "cookies" here.