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?"

2020年8月8日 20:02

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

2020年8月8日

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.

2020年8月9日

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!

2020年8月8日

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