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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
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Is this use of 'million' correct? frequent?
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00 An Ohio woman is demanding $20 million from Yahoo for allegedly using a photo of her without her permission for a welcome e-mail sent to new users. 02 br
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02 b 00 Shouldn't that be '20$ millions' since it is a noun. I guess there's ilipsis of the noun and that the use of nouns 'million' after causes it to be written as an adjective (no -s) even when it is a noun. Also, unrelated, the 'her' before permission is unnecessary 0-
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00 An Ohio woman is demanding $20 million from Yahoo for allegedly using a photo of her without her permission for a welcome e-mail sent to new users. 02 br
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02 b 00 Shouldn't that be '20$ millions' since it is a noun. I guess there's ilipsis of the noun and that the use of nouns 'million' after causes it to be written as an adjective (no -s) even when it is a noun. Also, unrelated, the 'her' before permission is unnecessary 0-
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02 br 02 br 00 four hundred books 02 br 02 br 00 two thousand people 02 br 02 br 00 three hundred thousand worms 02 br 02 br 00 twenty million dollars 0-
- 02 br 02 br 00 four hundred books 02 br 02 br 00 two thousand people 02 br 02 br 00 three hundred thousand worms 02 br 02 br 00 twenty million dollars 0-
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0 when we count multiples of things with an exact number, we don't pluralise the unit of counting. 02 br
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00 four hundred books 02 br
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00 two thousand people 02 br
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00 three hundred thousand worms 02 br
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00 four hundred books 02 br
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00 three hundred thousand worms 02 br
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