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Tamguatlay Posted 13 years ago
Vocabulary

He owns six pieces of property / properties.

He owns six pieces of property.

He owns six properties.

Which is the correct sentence?

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He owns six properties.

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  • He owns six properties.
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tamguatlayHe owns six pieces of property.
This is OK in American English if you are speaking about vacant land.
tamguatlayHe owns six properties.
This is OK if you are speaking about developed property such as buildings (commercial or residential).
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They mean the same thing without any context.
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Anonymous They mean the same thing without any context.
No. Without any context, 'He owns six properties' can mean only one thing. 'He owns six pieces of property' could mean more than one thing.
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fivejedjonHe owns six pieces of property' could mean more than one thing.
"could mean more than one thing" -- Can you please elaborate? Thanks.
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Property is sometimes (in colloquial usage - always in legal usage) divided into real property (or real estate), which is land and anything permanently attached to the land, and personal property, which is movable property. Six properties is only ever colloquially used to mean six pieces of real property, but six pieces of property could con
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He owns six property.
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Anonymous He owns six property.
No. That is not possible.
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he owns six parcels of land
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In the US both are fine. "He owns six property" would be INCORRECT. Property must be in plural form, as there are six of them. "Six parcels of land" is ok but would imply that no structures are built on the property.
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