Use this 12-minute lesson to teach quantity words. Check answers together after students finish the 12 items.

Read the 4 rules in the chart first. Then do the 12 practice questions from easy to hard.

more + noun means a bigger amount. It works with plural nouns and with nouns that we cannot count. We use than to compare two things.

fewer goes with plural nouns that we can count, so we say fewer cars and fewer lanes (never fewer traffic).

less goes with nouns that we cannot count, so we say less traffic and less noise. In everyday speech some people say less cars, but in school English we say fewer cars.

For three or more things we use the most, the fewest, or the least with no than, and the always comes in front.

____ a. The bypass has fewer cones than the main road. ____ b. The bypass has less cones than the main road.

____ a. The tunnel has fewer traffic than the old bridge. ____ b. The tunnel has less traffic than the old bridge.

____ a. The ramp has the most cones than the bridge. ____ b. The ramp has more cones than the bridge.

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"There are less footbridges in this town now."

10. Fix the incorrect word less. What is the correct word? (count)

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"The old underpass needed fewer steel than the new tunnel."

11. Fix the incorrect word fewer. What is the correct word? (amount)

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"Take the diversion! It has least traffic today."

12. One word is missing before 'least'. What is the missing word? (amount)

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