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26 Jul 2019
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The business trip was great. We exchanged gifts and had few good meetings.
(is it OK to use the word "few" here? or should I use "a few"? Is there a big difference between the two, please? thank you very much!🙏)
The business trip was great. We exchanged gifts and had few good meetings.
(is it OK to use the word "few" here? or should I use "a few"? Is there a big difference between the two, please? thank you very much!🙏)
(is it OK to use the word "few" here? or should I use "a few"? Is there a big difference between the two, please? thank you very much!🙏)
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If you were to say “few good meetings” its like saying we barely had any good meetings. I would definitely recommend that you say “a few good meetings” because it completely changes the tone of the sentence. If you say “few” instead of “a few” it seems like you are talking about a bad experience. Hope this helps!
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- English (US)
Yes, there is a small difference. “A few” means some, so “we had some good meetings”. This would usually have a positive implication. Using “few” alone changes the meaning a bit. It’s more like saying “not many of the meetings were good”.
- English (US)
Few does not mean none but if you say we had few good meetings it sounds like you had meetings and most of them were bad.
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