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Meanwhile, I have very much enjoyed reading about the supermarket Tesco and its language difficulties! If you go into a supermarket you can always see a sign directing shoppers to a fast queue, but in Tesco you can only join the fast queue if you have “Ten items or less”. Of course, this is grammatically incorrect because ‘less’ is a word used with uncountable nouns (such as water, sand) not countable nouns, in this case ‘items’. If you are interested in such things you can read the article about Tesco in the BBC Magazine here.
The other link today is to a couple of online exercises which practice the language point of expressing quantity. You can find the exercises, which come from the New Headway Upper Intermediate Oxford University Press pages, here.