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Message: [QUOTE="Arved Sandstrom, post: 4221963"] In fact, in the original construction, if I had written "the fewer people were able to understand it" that would have been stilted and wrong. It's the "the" there that makes all the difference. I could have written "...went with it, fewer people were able to understand it." and that would be OK (if still marginally US Constitution-sounding like). "The less" in my construction actually operates as a single unit. Although I'm not sure what part of a sentence it corresponds to. AHS [/QUOTE]