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Alc24 Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Percent or precentage

Percent or Percentage? Can you say the following?

- The last percent/pecentage takes forever?

- It takes the computer forever to go from 99 percent to 100.

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The second sentence is OK. The first is very strange. We would say, the last little bit seems to take forever.

— Dave Phillips

  • The second sentence is OK.
  • The first is very strange.
  • We would say, the last little bit seems to take forever.
  • Percent/Percentage.
  • I have 10 percent.
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The second sentence is OK. The first is very strange.

We would say, the last little bit seems to take forever.

Percent/Percentage.

I have 10 percent.

The percentage I have is 10 (percent).

What percentage do you have?
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