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"count for" and "account for"
Chinese count for a fifth of the population in the world.
Chinese account for a fifth of the population in the world.
Are both of them correct?
13 jan. 2019 13:52
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10 juni 2021
The most natural is "China has a fifth of the world's population" or "The Chinese are a fifth of the world's population."
"Chinese" is wrong. "The Chinese" is correct.
(p.152 - unit 7C - English Grammar in Use 4th ed. by Murphy (Cambridge). A PDF is probably available on the internet.)
"count for" is incorrect.
"account for" is correct.
New Oxford American Dictionary
count for
• (count for) be worth (a specified amount): he has no power base and his views count for little.
account for
2 supply or make up (a specified amount or proportion): social security accounts for about a third of total public spending.
13 januari 2019
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