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Mr. Tom Posted 7 years ago
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Amount of people

Hi

Would you say that the phrase amount of people sounds natural to you here?

at 2:20

Thanks,

Tom

  

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Mr. Tom Would you say that the phrase amount of people sounds natural to you here? No.

— CalifJim

  • Mr.
  • Tom Would you say that the phrase amount of people sounds natural to you here?
  • No.
  • It doesn't stick out as horribly wrong, but it's wrong.
  • number of goes with countable nouns.
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Mr. TomWould you say that the phrase amount of people sounds natural to you here?

No. It doesn't stick out as horribly wrong, but it's wrong.

number of goes with countable nouns.
amount of goes with uncountable nouns.

So it's "number of people".

CJ

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