- $x USD vs. x USD: does the $ serve any purpose?
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- Thousand Dollars Worth or Thousand Dollars Worth. Is this a . . .
Thought this may also just been a combination of "dollars' worth" being a somewhat dated expression and the occurrence of "dollars worth"--correctly--in phrases like "How much is 100 US dollars worth in England" (which is one of the first search hits returned for "dollars worth")
- Does a percentage quantity take singular or plural verb agreement . . .
Of the top 100 earners, 10% own a yacht If it's part of a whole, use singular I made the pie, so 10% is mine In the case of a percentage of units, of them is being erased In the case of a whole of it is being erased
- grammatical number - Are percentages singular or plural? - English . . .
Even if there are 100 students, and you want to infer 1%, you still use plural: 1% of 100 students are present In the second case, the noun is "protein" - countable noun in singular, the verb is singular as well: The remaining 20% of the protein forms enzymes
- writing style - How to write numbers and percentage? - English Language . . .
[Relevant examples;] 1%[;] 45%[;] 100% In discussions involving infrequent use of numbers you may spell out a percentage or an amount of money if you can do so in three words or fewer (five dollars, forty-five percent, two thousand dollars, sixty-eight cents) Do no combine spelled forms of numbers with symbols
- a 100 vs 100 - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The flow rate increases 100-fold (one hundred-fold) Would be a more idiomatic way of saying this, however, the questioner asks specifically about the original phrasing The above Ngram search would suggest that a one hundred has always been less frequently used in written language and as such should probably be avoided
- Difference between hundred, a hundred, and one hundred?
In the UK 'a hundred, a hundred and one, a hundred and two' etc is a common style when speaking about 100, 101, 102 etc This form is also used when writing what has been spoken 'One hundred' is also used Either form is also used for 1,000, i e 'a thousand', or 'one thousand' etc
- punctuation - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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