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This is unacceptable for an intelligent website like tesla.com...
For those that are grammatically challenged, the subject (seconds) is plural.
I tried posting on the official Tesla forums, but the two buttons to Save and Preview are inactive on my browser for some reason.
Nope, you just need another hit.Maybe I picked the wrong week to stop huffing paint but I'm having a hard time understanding what's wrong.
Nope, you just need another hit.
Dan
Well, down here in the good old boy capital of the world it would have read...This is unacceptable for an intelligent website like tesla.com...
For those that are grammatically challenged, the subject (seconds) is plural.
I tried posting on the official Tesla forums, but the two buttons to Save and Preview are inactive on my browser for some reason.
Maybe I picked the wrong week to stop huffing paint but I'm having a hard time understanding what's wrong.
It's just a phrase, not a complete sentence...but wouldn't "acceleration" be the subject? Wouldn't "seconds" be an indirect object?This is unacceptable for an intelligent website like tesla.com...
For those that are grammatically challenged, the subject (seconds) is plural.
Glad I'm not alone.
The only thing I can possibly think of is the OP "sees" the last word as 'second' and thinks it should be 'seconds', but the rest of us see 'seconds' and looks right to us.
This is unacceptable for an intelligent website like tesla.com...
For those that are grammatically challenged, the subject (seconds) is plural.
I tried posting on the official Tesla forums, but the two buttons to Save and Preview are inactive on my browser for some reason.
I could accept that seconds is the indirect subject/object, but the measurement is the rub. It should be fewer seconds. Like the finger on chalkboard signs at the grocery store... "This line is for 10 items or less".It's just a phrase, not a complete sentence...but wouldn't "acceleration" be the subject? Wouldn't "seconds" be an indirect object?
Please read my entire post.You have way to much time on your hands. And why are you posting this here, shouldn't you be complaining directly to Tesla?
It isn't a singular declaration. Seconds indicate multiple or plural. Less than 1 second. Fewer than 2.5 seconds.Yeah, that was why I was left wondering if I was having a stroke at the time. There is an argument around little vs few, where few should be used when there is a quantitative measure and little(or less) when it is qualitative, i.e. less strong or less agile. But in instances like Tesla's example, 2.5s isn't really quantitative rather it is used as a singular declaration so little makes more sense. Temperature and money work the same way usually. Think of how odd it sounds if one were to say "The high today will be as few as 40 degrees F". We almost always say as little as because "40 degrees" doesn't really represent the sum of 40 individual degrees in our statement, it is really more of a singular item and that item would be "the high".
I could accept that seconds is the indirect subject/object, but the measurement is the rub. It should be fewer seconds. Like the finger on chalkboard signs at the grocery store... "This line is for 10 items or less".
This isn't a debate about what "sounds" correct, it is about what is truly grammatically correct.
It isn't a singular declaration. Seconds indicate multiple or plural. Less than 1 second. Fewer than 2.5 seconds.
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This isn't a debate about what "sounds" correct, it is about what is truly grammatically correct.
I have a lot of pet peeves in my old age.
A Little / A Few :: DefaultUncountable nouns can only be used in singular. These nouns cannot be used with a number (that's why they are called 'uncountable nouns'). Uncountable nouns take a little.
1 second. 3 seconds. It is quantities of seconds to reach a given end point, in this case, 60 mph.Acceleration is uncountable in terms of time, it is only described in quantities. So you can't use fewer to describe it.
I can't think of an example where acceleration can be used as a noun. More of a verb.You wouldn't say 3 accelerations.
The acceleration is singular. One acceleration = 2.5 seconds.It accelerates in a quantity of time comparable with a lower limit of 2.5 seconds, but it is not a countable number of times...