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- quantifiers - The amount of VS The number of, etc - English Language . . .
OP is now asking about the usage of amount is a sentence such as: The number of people commuting by bus considerably increased in the year of 2013 and asks whether amount or proportion could replace number Cambridge Dictionary defines amount as follows and includes a Grammar Note: amount noun [countable]
- Amount vs. number vs. quantity - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Amount is normally used for nouns that can't be measured The amount of animosity generated by his comments was out of all proportion to his words But it can also be used for things that can be measured (as @psmears points out below), especially money: Please send your payment in the amount of $253 79 Quantity is used for nouns you can measure
- Differences between Amount, Count, Number and Quantity
Examples about the usages with count, number and amount -- wrong or right? I have 7 liters of juice This amount is too much to drink alone I have 17 sparse polynomials This count is irrelavant (how my programming would say) I have 17 sparse polynomials This number is irrelavant (Used amount but guided to number)
- word choice - When to use amount vs amounts? - English Language . . .
The large amount of each individual's expenditure could be tallied together as a single large amount of money, but the pluralization expresses a sense of the complexity Even the large amount of an individual's expenditure can be expressed as a plural to communicate the various budget items or transactions within the expenditure:
- Amount vs amounts? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I need a small amount of milk in this recipe (generally implies a single dose) Same application for Ireland's small amount (viewed as a total amount) I need to add small amounts of milk (probably need to add gradually, while cooking) Ireland's small amounts of waste were being promptly disposed of throughout the year
- grammar - With amount will you use singular or plural? - English . . .
(if you take away the prepositional phrase, nothing else whould change, 'the amount, it will grow' See what happens with large amount of apples and the fact that X will exponentially grow If you said 'they will grow', you'd presumably be referring to the individual apples, but instead you are talking about the -amount- that will grow
- What is the convention for use of volume or amount in reference to . . .
Volume of data stored – The amount of data stored is a key driver for the database platform required From David Haertzen, The Analytical Puzzle Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics, 2012 This would add unnecessary complexity to the database and vastly increase the amount of data to be manipulated
- verbs - The past participle of split: split or splitted . . .
I have just written a question in the PPCG site, and now that I read it again I have just noticed that I have just written "split" and "splitted" randomly as the past participle of "to split": Ca
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