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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 ago 2020 20:02
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Four million people live in that city.
hence
"How many million people live in that city?"
8 agosto 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 agosto 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?"
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8 agosto 2020
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Competenze linguistiche
Inglese, Georgiano, Tedesco, Russo
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese, Georgiano, Tedesco
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