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OttoJ Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Results

What's the difference between the singular and the plural?

The voting result (or results here?) is as follows:

Total number of members of the German Society: 294
Total number of votes: 206
Voting rate: 70.07%
Number of supportive votes: 202 (98.06%)
Number of negative votes: 1 (0.49%)
Number of abstention votes: 3 (1.46%)
Number of invalid votes: 0 (0%)
Ratio of supportive to negative votes: 202:1
  

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There is no real difference in this case. If you use "results" then you also need to change "is" to "are", of course. "abstention votes" is not right.

— GPY

  • There is no real difference in this case.
  • If you use "results" then you also need to change "is" to "are", of course.
  • "abstention votes" is not right.
  • "abstention" means that someone did not vote.
  • Just say "Number of abstentions".
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There is no real difference in this case. If you use "results" then you also need to change "is" to "are", of course.

"abstention votes" is not right. "abstention" means that someone did not vote. Just say "Number of abstentions".

Consider using "opposing" rather than "negative".
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