4 COUNCIL vs COUNSEL :
– Council is a group noun. It refers to a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject, to represent a particular group of people, or to run a particular organization.
For example: “The local council has decided not to allocate any more funds for the project.”
– Counsel can be a verb, which means to give advice, especially on social or personal problems.
For example: “She counsels the long-term unemployed on how to get a job.”
Counsel can also be a noun, which means advice.
For example: “I should have listened to my father’s counsel, and saved some money instead of spending it all.”
5 FEWER vs LESS :
most people gets this wrong – including native speakers. The general rule is to use fewer for things you can count (individually), and less for things you can only measure
For example:
There were fewer people in the class than usual. (People can be counted.)
There were fewer days below freezing last winter. (Days can be counted.)
I drink less coffee than she does. (Coffee cannot be counted individually it has to be measured).
It looks bad when there’s less
information about your company on a site than there is for other companies.
!Note – The lines between less and fewer are getting blurred, i.e. a sign in a shop might say, “10 items or less,” because “10 items or fewer,” seems pompous to many people. Or maybe it’s because less takes fewer letters.
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