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Alc24 Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Native speaker, please help me: Percent or percentage

Could you please tell how you would say these sentences please?
Which of these 2 is correct?
1 How much of the movie has (been) downloaded so far?
2 What percentage of the movie has (been) downloaded?

3 The team shot 2 percent/percentage points worse than their opponent.

Thank you so much
  

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1 Fine either way. 2 Fine either way, but I think 'percent' is the term you want. 3 I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.

— Philip

  • 1 Fine either way.
  • 2 Fine either way, but I think 'percent' is the term you want.
  • 3 I have no idea what this is supposed to mean.
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1 Fine either way.
2 Fine either way, but I think 'percent' is the term you want.

3 I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. [I'm skilled in neither math nor sports.]
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