Is it "a little" or "a few"?

Question

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The region of Pulo Aceh is generally mountainous and surrounded by Indian Ocean. There is only a *little* land in Pulo Nasi for people’s settlement and plantation.

Answer 1

little. Land is a non countable noun. You can only use "few" for countable nouns.

Ex:
A little milk. (non countable)
A little salt (non countable)

A few glasses of milk. (countable)
A few spoonfuls of salt (countable)

In the last two examples you are counting the glasses and the spoonfuls as units of measure, as opposed to the actual things, the milk and the salt.

Both milk and salt, "and land" are non countable nouns. The test is this....Can you say...."Two salts", no. Can you say....."Two milks", no. Can you say "Two lands", no. As in counting lands.

The rule applies to furniture too, as well as many other groups of things, and liquids, and gasses.

One, two, three furnitures?...........no
One, two, three chairs? ...............yes

Answer 2

little is correct. Few is used when counting whole ltems. Like few mountains. In your sentence you are talking about a fraction of land.

Answer 3

It's "a little" although "a small amount" would sound better.

Answer 4

tad is correct sir

Answer 5

a little is correct.