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The divergence betwixt Million and Millions

Which of the following sentences is grammatically right?

A: New Zealand has a population of over iv meg people

B: New Zealand has a population of over iv millions people

The outset sentence (A) is correct and the second judgement (B) is incorrect. Why?

English students often get confused almost when to put an Southward on the terminate of words like hundred, thousand, and meg. Below are the rules:

Million

When we have big numbers or a specific number, we do Not put an Southward at the end of hundred, thousand, and one thousand thousand.

We say five one thousand (right)
NOT v thousands (incorrect).

Sometimes we say a hundred instead of one hundred and a yard instead of one thousand (and the same for a million).

Remember, when nosotros are talking about an verbal number (e.g. one 1000000, eight chiliad, ii hundred and sixty-four), we do non put an Due south on the end of any of the numbers.

Millions

Nosotros can use an S at then of hundreds, thousands, millions etc to express an approximate figure.
This gives people an idea of quantity but not a precise corporeality.

In add-on hundreds/thousands/millions etc are often followed by of + countable noun
Equally we are using plurals here, you should never put A in front of hundreds, thousands or millions.

Compare:

He won a meg dollars in the lottery
= He won exactly $1,000,000

He won millions of dollars in the lottery
= He won an unspecified amount but information technology was in the millions.

We ofttimes use hundreds/millions etc when we want to give the impression of 'very many' and we are often exaggerating, using the numbers as a figure of spoken communication.

e.g.

I went camping ground in Australia and returned with hundreds of musquito bites!
This is obviously an exaggeration but it gives the impression of very many.

I went camping in Australia and returned with one hundred musquito bites.
This gives an impression that you literally have i hundred bites on your body. Information technology sounds similar y'all counted them since it is a specific number.

See our vocabulary notes about Numbers in English language.