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Reply Thu 10 Jan, 2008 08:28 pm
Only ten cars for our show? That's far too few! We need a lot of cars for our show tomorrow!

Is the sentence good enough or could be phrased in a better way?

Many thanks.
 
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Reply Thu 10 Jan, 2008 09:15 pm
I'd prefer "not nearly enough." But perhaps only for the alliteration. I'm a sucker for alliteration.

Today's term: I'm a sucker for....

Anywho (intentional misspelling for comedic effect, even though it's unfunny), most Americans would say "way too few". But they are engaging in abusage (one of my favorite words).

Damn, being an ESL teacher made me irritating!
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Reply Thu 10 Jan, 2008 09:15 pm
It is gramatically correct.

Means the same as "That's not enough!"
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Reply Thu 10 Jan, 2008 09:17 pm
Thanks, guys, for your help.
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Reply Fri 11 Jan, 2008 03:01 am
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most Americans would say "way too few".

But nobody else. This is specifically an Americanism and would sound American to any English-speaker outside North America (I don't know about Canada).
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Reply Thu 17 Jan, 2008 10:07 pm
syntinen wrote:
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most Americans would say "way too few".

But nobody else. This is specifically an Americanism and would sound American to any English-speaker outside North America (I don't know about Canada).


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