But Marcin is right. There should not be a noun after this expression, but most likely an adjective.
Ruud > I understand that U/C part, but "more or less" in > this case is an idiom meaning "to a varying or > undetermined extent or degree" (Merriam-Webster's > Collegiate® Dictionary). We can't have it as "more or fewer". > > kb > > Marcin MiÅkowski wrote thus at 10:40 PM 07-03-14: >>I'm not sure it's correct English. "Combinations" is countable, so there >>cannot be "less combinations", only "fewer combinations". I couldn't >>find many examples of "more or less" with plural countable nouns in any >>corpus. >> >>So I think this is not a bug but a feature. >> >>Regards, >>Marcin > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to > Perforce. > With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. > Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and > the > freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk > _______________________________________________ > Languagetool-devel mailing list > Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Subversion Kills Productivity. Get off Subversion & Make the Move to Perforce. With Perforce, you get hassle-free workflows. Merge that actually works. Faster operations. Version large binaries. Built-in WAN optimization and the freedom to use Git, Perforce or both. Make the move to Perforce. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=122218951&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Languagetool-devel mailing list Languagetool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/languagetool-devel
