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Odessa Dawn Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

"People in the dozens are dying of starvation …"

People in the dozens are dying of starvation.

I think we should take the off, shouldn’t we?

Are the below sentences grammatically correct?

People in dozens are dying of starvation.
People are dying in dozen of starvation.
  

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You could say "People by the dozens are dying of starvation," but "Dozens of people are dying of starvation" is more common.

  • You could say "People by the dozens are dying of starvation," but "Dozens of people are dying of starvation" is more common.
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You could say "People by the dozens are dying of starvation," but "Dozens of people are dying of starvation" is more common.

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