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by das.ashmita » Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:05 am
William Butler Yeats' stirring poem Meditations in Time of Civil War which uses imagery first depicting Ireland's overall struggle and then the poet's personal experiences, allows for a large number of interpretations of individual word choice but little debate over his overall meaning.

A a large number of interpretations of individual word choice but little debate over his overall meaning
B a large number of interpretations of individual word choice but less debate over his overall meaning
C a large amount of interpretations of individual word choice but little debate over his overall meaning
D a large amount of interpretations of individual word choice but less debate over his overall meaning
E large amounts of interpretations of individual word choice but little debates over his overall
meaning

OA: [spoiler]A[/spoiler]

I was down to A & B.
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by anuprajan5 » Tue Oct 02, 2012 6:42 am
Ashmita,

My choice would be A.

Less is used for countable nouns and little is used for uncountable nouns. Debate is an uncountable noun.

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