Wrong grammar?
helps prevents?? Shouldn't it be "helps prevent"? Please see attached image.
by the way, why 19 million but not 19 millions?
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kenny1999 helps prevents?? Shouldn't it be "helps prevent"? Yes, grammatically, but "helps" is there only as a weasel word that helps prevent the sentence from actually saying anything, so it shouldn't be there, either.
- kenny1999 helps prevents??
- Shouldn't it be "helps prevent"?
- Yes, grammatically, but "helps" is there only as a weasel word that helps prevent the sentence from actually saying anything, so it shouldn't be there, either.
- Come to think of it, maybe that's what happened.
- The original copywriter had "which prevents", and some lawyer tossed the weasel word in without looking.
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kenny1999helps prevents?? Shouldn't it be "helps prevent"?
Yes, grammatically, but "helps" is there only as a weasel word that helps prevent the sentence from actually saying anything, so it shouldn't be there, either. Come to think of it, maybe that's what happened. The original copywriter had "which prevents", and some lawyer tossed the weasel word in wit
0kenny1999Shouldn't it be "helps prevent"?
Yes.
kenny1999why 19 million but not 19 millions?
In English we don't pluralize specific numbers.
19 million, 50 thousand, 4 billion
Estimates of large numbers like these are pluralized.
billions of dollars, thousands of people
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