2022年3月31日 · If I am talking about money, I know that saying thirty thousand dollars is correct (e.g., 'I gave you thirty thousand dollars.') But if I am not adding 'dollars' at the end, then would I say thirty

2020年2月4日 · Does 'thousands and thousands', or 'millions and millions', etc. (something American president Donald Trump would say, for example) mean that it's at least four thousand (2+2)? Or does it mean nothing more than simply 'thousands' so 'thousands and thousands' can even mean 2 thousand?

It is because you are not counting the thousands, you are counting the trees. So when you say: There are seven thousand trees. The noun trees is countable and plural. thousand is an adjective in this example. Even if you don't say "trees" its still implied. But you could say: There are thousands and thousands of trees."

2018年12月18日 · When, therefore, hundreds of thousands of the dead were restored to life, and flocked to the city in their thousands, how could the Jews have let go such an opportunity? It was therefore resolved, as the only alternative, to arouse the people, Essex fondly imagining that his voice, if he called upon them, would bring them in their thousands and ...

2013年12月10日 · Thousands means "greater than one where n = 1000, that is, whole thousands. You can't take a person standing next to severed foot and 'round up' to two people. You can, however, say a person standing next to a half-torso (plus extremities, etc.) equals one and a half bodies. One and a half thousand is 1500. Thousands = multiples of "thousand".

2020年7月15日 · Thousands of people. A group of people A collection of people. For this scope, the "of" only comes after a noun, not an adjective. "A tall of people," is grammatically equivalent to "A thousand of people", and "A group people" is grammatically equivalent to "A thousands people", all of which are incorrect.

2014年7月3日 · The problem with M is that depending on the audience it can mean either thousands or millions. This is ambiguous; hence, if you wish to be unambiguous the use of M to mean either thousands or millions is to be avoided. Thus, we're left with k and MM as to unambiguous ways to denote thousands and millions respectively.

2016年1月16日 · Crowds swelled in the thousands does not sound right, I'd guess it's non-standard English. Sometimes grew in the thousands is used, but means grew to the thousands, which is the same meaning as: Crowds numbered in [or grew to] the thousands means that the total number of people in the crowd would be measured in the thousands. It does not ...

2015年6月24日 · Every day, thousands of tons of waste were sent to landfills. The words hundred and million work in the same way." Do "thousands of" and "millions of" mean the same? I kind of think the number that "millions of" refers to is more than the number that "thousands of" refers to.

2013年12月2日 · "Thousands of thousands" = 1000 x 1000 (or more) "Thousands upon thousands" = A x 1000 (where A is any relatively small number) So in simple terms, "thousands of thousands" is a lot more than "thousands upon thousands", although I do agree with you the latter does sound better.