How many millions of vs How many million of Google Search shows that English-speaking people don't ask questions this way) The expression occurs as a part of indirect questions mostly on context.rever

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How many millions of vs How many million of Google Search shows that English-speaking people don't ask questions this way) The expression occurs as a part of indirect questions mostly on context.reverso.net or similar websites. However, it is a natural question in my language and I saw it in an exercise in a textbook published here. I have the keys, so I have no doubt about the authors' opinion) Nevertheless, I'd like to hear from natives. The whole sentence is "How many million/millions people live in that city?"

8 août 2020 20:02

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Four million people live in that city. hence "How many million people live in that city?"

8 août 2020

We use both, but we we use them in different contexts. As an adjective modifying a noun, we use "how many million": @Nanren888 gives a good example of that. As a noun we use "how many millions (of something)": @Ian gives a good example of that.

9 août 2020

You are correct. This phrase doesn't "roll off the tongue" in a natural way for us. We would probably say: "How many people live there?" or "How much money does that rich person have?" But if I was going to use the phrase, I would say: "How many millions of stars are there in the sky?" Хорошая работа!

8 août 2020

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