{"id":72286,"date":"2019-09-19T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72286"},"modified":"2019-09-19T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T06:24:00","slug":"few-vs-little","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/few-vs-little\/","title":{"rendered":"Few vs. Little"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\"><b>A few <\/b>means some. It has a positive meaning. It is used with countable nouns.<b>Few<\/b> means hardly any. It has a negative meaning. <b>The few <\/b>means not many, but all of them.<\/p>\n<p>Compare<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were <b>a few <\/b>members present. (Some members were present.)<\/li>\n<li><b>Few <\/b>members attended the meeting. (Hardly any member attended the meeting.)<\/li>\n<li>He lost <b>the few <\/b>friends he had. (Not many, but all of them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note that <b>few<\/b> is used with plural nouns.<\/p>\n<h2>A little, little and the little<\/h2>\n<p><b>Little<\/b> is used with uncountable nouns.<b> A little<\/b> means some. It has a positive meaning. <b>Little<\/b> means hardly any. It has a negative meaning. <b>The little <\/b>means not much but all of that much.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Give me <b>a little <\/b>milk. (some milk.)<\/li>\n<li>I have <b>little<\/b> money. (hardly any)<\/li>\n<li>He drank off <b>the little<\/b> milk we had. (not much, but all of that much)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few means some. It has a positive meaning. It is used with countable nouns.Few means hardly any. It has a negative meaning. The few means not many, but all of them. Compare There&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1492,1198,1490,1491,1493,1494],"class_list":["post-72286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-a-few","tag-a-little","tag-few","tag-little","tag-the-few","tag-the-little"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72287,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72286\/revisions\/72287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}