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Taruns1008 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Order or Orders

#1 I'm under strict orders to keep you safe.
#2 She is not leaving Dehradun tomorrow as the order for her transfer has been cancelled.

#3 I don't take orders from your kind.

#4 He'd deal with her after he issued orders to his assassins.

# 5 The road was closed all day by order of the Police.

In above sentences they uses "orders" and "order" but I don't know why.

Can one please explain what is the difference b/w "order" and "orders". When to use them?


#1 What time will we know who won?

I found this sentence in news paper headlines. Don't we use "shall" with I and We in interrogative sentences?

Thank you

  

Top answer

In #1 and #3, only the plural is natural. Learn it! In #2, the reference is to a particular order (that for her transfer).

— Teechr

  • In #1 and #3, only the plural is natural.
  • Learn it!
  • In #2, the reference is to a particular order (that for her transfer).
  • Sentence #4 is unnatural.
  • In #5, "by order of" is a set phrase.
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In #1 and #3, only the plural is natural. Learn it!

In #2, the reference is to a particular order (that for her transfer).

Sentence #4 is unnatural.

In #5, "by order of" is a set phrase. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/by_order

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