Timeline for Determiners of Quantity and Count Nouns: What is wrong with saying, "Joan drank hardly any sodas"?
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| Sep 15, 2017 at 17:11 | comment | added | Kevin | @Jim yeah, that does sound reasonable. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ | |
| Sep 15, 2017 at 5:28 | comment | added | Jim | @Kevin - If at a party you sent me to check on the beverage situation and I checked the cooler and reported, “There are hardly any sodas left.” How would that sound to you? | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 21:30 | comment | added | Kevin | Regardless, good luck. Tests like that are more about reading the writers' minds and knowing obscure vocabulary and arcane, pedantic (and not always objectively correct) "rules" than anything useful. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 21:25 | comment | added | Kevin | Hardly any sodas does sound odd to me, but I don't know what the precise grammatical rule about that would be. Maybe if the noun can be non-countable or countable, the non-countable is preferred? | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 21:25 | comment | added | Lambie | Not all Phds who write this stuff agree. Technically, Joan probably drank hardly any soda [because with an s that would mean 2 or 3 rather than 10 or 12]. That said, she may have eaten hardly any peas. In other words, size may matter. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 21:02 | history | edited | Megan Walsh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 14, 2017 at 20:56 | comment | added | choster | Welcome to EL&U. Please provide the full context: which book? What is the topic of the lesson? Is this an exercise or an example from text? I agree that there are no obvious problems, but there may be situations where this phrasing would not be desired. I strongly encourage you to take the site tour and review the help center for further guidance. | |
| Sep 14, 2017 at 20:54 | history | asked | Megan Walsh | CC BY-SA 3.0 |