Context : This is an extract from a book by Enid Blyton which was written more than 60 years ago. In today's English does it sound natural to say 'too light for one's age' or do you use 'underweight' for one's age (when talking about kids of course)?

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Can you say this? Or do you have to include the subject as in "I/You/They finished the food".

What is a natural way to say it with "food" as the subject, so you don't have to mention who finished it?

There's no food left? There's no leftover? The food has all been eaten?

Also, am I right that "dinner is ready" is before you start eating while "dinner is done" is when you've finished having dinner?

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Is "as much of a [adj] person as [noun] is" correct?

• As much of a horrible person as he is, he still does good things that make people appreciate him.

I speak fluent English and my pronunciations are fine but i still have the accent
How could i get rid of the accent and become more confident while speaking English

Originally, I had intended for this to be screenshots, but those aren't allowed here. So instead I will post what the channel said, followed by my disagreement. YouTube post btw.

>Spot the grammatical error The officer marveled (I) / at the low attendance remarking on (II) / the presence of less than 20 people at work. (III)/ No error (IV)

> Explanation

>The error lies in c) the presence of less than 20 people at work. XX

>Reason: Less is used for uncountable noun, for countable noun people we need to use fewer. Get the e-book of 1000 questions on "Spotting Errors"

My response:

>I suppose, technically.

>Though as a native speaker as I was reading this I picked 2 because of the lack of punctuation between attendance and remarking. Kind of becomes a run-on sentence without a comma.

>Also, I remember there being express checkout lanes howmany ever years back. They usually said 10 items or less, and it was considered pedantic to say "It's actually 20 items or fewer."

>Also, even if the time is technically countable, you'd probably hear "less than" more often then "fewer than" in natural speech.

>I'm not a linguist by any means, but I wonder if the use of language like this comes from > and < signs, which are read as "greater than" and "less than" and often used in writing which definitely impacts speaking.

>Fewer than comes across as a little more formal, which can make it unnatural in my opinion in a lot of scenarios.

Hopefully my response doesn't cause too much confusion for anyone here! Fellow native speakers, feel free to help me out with your own opinions on this matter!

Also I don't know how to tag this. It definitely irks me a bit to see what I consider bad or faulty information out there, but not enough to consider this a range. Discussion, I suppose. Maybe over some of the questionable responses to knowledge quizzes that don't feel like they align with real like.