Comparisons

[sanketm5]

I would like to know when to use less and when to use fewer when comparing percentages of countable nouns> For eg: Less than 40 percent of cars or fewer than 40% of cars. Same for more vs greater.
Reply urgently needed
Thank you

[sanketm5]

Can anyone reply please?

[RonPurewal]

I would like to know when to use less and when to use fewer when comparing percentages of countable nouns> For eg: Less than 40 percent of cars or fewer than 40% of cars. Same for more vs greater.
Reply urgently needed
Thank you

Have you actually seen this issue tested in a problem?

I've seen GMAC do this both ways—but, more importantly, I've never seen a problem on which it was actually tested. So, it's basically irrelevant to this exam.

If you've actually seen it in a problem, then you should post the problem.

[RonPurewal]

Also, please be mindful of how this forum works.

• We answer questions from oldest to newest within each folder. Writing "reply urgently needed" will not do anything to change this.

• And, if you do this...

Can anyone reply please?

... then you've just made your thread the newest one again. I.e., back to the end of the line.

[sanketm5]

some knowledge of grammar instead of clarifying what appears on GMAT would be better.

[RonPurewal]

some knowledge of grammar instead of clarifying what appears on GMAT would be better.

This is not a general grammar forum. It's a GMAT forum.
Every question here should be related to something you've seen in GMAT materials.

We're not trying to be obstinate here. The GMAT tests a VERY narrow band of potential errors in written English—I'd say maybe 1, 2, 3 percent of things that can actually go wrong.
So, if you ask random questions—like this one—they are very unlikely to be relevant to the exam.

Please provide a GMAT-related citation for this query. If you can't find one, then the issue is almost certainly irrelevant to the exam.

Thanks.