Choose the correct word: ‘There is ___ water in this bottle than in that one.’
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'Water' is uncountable, so the comparative quantifier is 'less.'
'Fewer' is used with plural countable nouns.
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'Water' is uncountable, so the comparative quantifier is 'less.'
'Fewer' is used with plural countable nouns.
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'Who' introduces a clause describing 'student.'
Relative pronouns connect dependent clauses to nouns.
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The word 'happily' describes how the children played.
A word that modifies a verb in this way functions as an adverb.
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'Before' introduces the dependent clause 'you leave.'
A word joining a subordinate clause to a main clause functions as a conjunction.
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In this sentence, 'light' names a thing that can be turned off.
Therefore, it functions as a noun rather than a verb or adjective.
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'Useful' describes the noun 'suggestion.'
Words that modify nouns are adjectives.
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'Under' shows the spatial relationship between the keys and the cushion.
Words that express such relationships are prepositions.
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'Repaired' takes the direct object 'the engine.'
A verb that transfers its action to an object is transitive.
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'But' joins two independent clauses of equal grammatical importance.
It is one of the standard coordinating conjunctions.
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'Laughed' does not require a direct object.
A verb that expresses a complete action without an object is intransitive.
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'Honesty' names a quality rather than a physical object.
Names of qualities, ideas, or states are abstract nouns.
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The subject is 'Each,' which is singular.
A singular subject takes the singular verb 'has.'