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943.With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theatre Company is in danger of losing its building.

(A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer

Please explain

A)

It should be Less dollars (countable) and Few subscribers (countable).

Please throw some light on this one.

Regards
Mankey

mankey wrote:Please throw some light on this one.

Regards
Mankey

IMO A. we are comparing the sales of the theatre -- use X is less than Y.

Also 'subscriber' is a countable thing. Use Fewer for comparision..

hth!

f2001290 wrote:943.With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theatre Company is in danger of losing its building.

(A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer

Please explain

Countable : X less than Y
Comaparison: X fewer than Y

IMO:A

Why not C? Please explain.

Regards
Mankey

f2001290 wrote:943.With total sales of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theatre Company is in danger of losing its building.

(A) of less than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(B) lower than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(C) lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer
(D) fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and less
(E) of fewer than three hundred thousand dollars and of fewer

I think the answer should be C.
It is in line with parallelism.
A, B and D don't have a parallel construct and in E - "fewer that 3k" and "of fewer" is incorrect.

mankey wrote:Why not C? Please explain.

Regards
Mankey

With total sales lesser than three hundred thousand dollars and fewer new subscribers than last year, the New England Theatre Company is in danger of losing its building.

aren't we missing something between sales and lesser!

Also "With lesser total sales and fewer new subcribers" is fine!
when you compare X with a defined value (300 thousand) you cannot use lesser!

Check these,

I have lesser than 100 dollars
I have less than 100 dollars
I have lesser dollars than he has.

The professor had lesser than 10 topics to cover.
The professor had less than 10 topics to cover.
Professor.A has lesser topics to cover than what Professor.B has to.

Hope it helped and am correct