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Anonymous Posted 7 years ago
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30% more people

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

30% more people were arrested today than last week. 


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anonymous Is this sentence grammatically correct? 30% more people were arrested today than last week. The grammar is OK, but any style manual will tell you that numbers at the beginning of a sentence must be written out, thus: Thirty percent more people ...

— CalifJim

  • anonymous Is this sentence grammatically correct?
  • 30% more people were arrested today than last week.
  • The grammar is OK, but any style manual will tell you that numbers at the beginning of a sentence must be written out, thus: Thirty percent more people ...
  • CJ
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anonymous

Is this sentence grammatically correct?

30% more people were arrested today than last week.

The grammar is OK, but any style manual will tell you that numbers at the beginning of a sentence must be written out, thus:

Thirty percent more people ...

CJ

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