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Is "less people attended" correct?
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I wrote in my IELTS essay: "Less people attended the event than expected." Is that okay?
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Correction
Less people attended the event than expected.
Fewer people attended the event than expected.
"People" is countable — use "fewer", not "less".
Use "fewer" for countable nouns (people, tickets, errors) and "less" for uncountable (time, money, traffic). Correct: "Fewer people attended the event than expected." Memory trick: fewer = things you can count one by one.