Twenty thousands three millions

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.


This exercise is from English File. Could you please check my corrections? I think I should have left the 's' in ''twenty thousands''.

 

[jutfrank]

The' s' at the end of thousands and millions is wrong.

 

[Rachel Adams]

The' s' at the end of thousands and millions is wrong.

But if I add books or $ twenty thousand books or three million dollars then using the 's' would be wrong. Am I right?
Was the rest correct?

 

[GoesStation]

But if I add books or $ twenty thousand books or three million dollars then using the 's' would be wrong. Am I right?
Was the rest correct?

It's always three thousand/twenty million whether or not a noun follows the number.

I say a hundred and seventy-five or one hundred seventy-five — usually the former. The "and" may be almost completely reduced, emerging as 'n'.

Please transcribe the other questions.

 

[Rachel Adams]

two thousand [STRIKE]and[/STRIKE] one hundred and fifty

Yes, I crossed it out.

 

[Rachel Adams]

It's always three thousand/twenty million whether or not a noun follows the number.

I say a hundred and seventy-five or one hundred seventy-five — usually the former. The "and" may be almost completely reduced, emerging as 'n'.

Please transcribe the other questions.

175 one/a hundred and seventy-five
2,150 two thousand one hundred and fifty
3,009 three thousand and nine
20,000 twenty thousand
3,000, 000 three million

 

[emsr2d2]

175 one/a hundred and seventy-five
2,150 two thousand one hundred and fifty
3,009 three thousand and nine
20,000 twenty thousand
3,000,000 three million

With my correction to the spacing above, yes, those are correct.

 

[GoesStation]

175 one/a hundred and seventy-five
2,150 two thousand one hundred and fifty
3,009 three thousand and nine
20,000 twenty thousand
3,000, 000 three million

And is optional in American English except for a hundred and seventy-five — but it's often so reduced as to be barely perceptible in speech.

 

[Rachel Adams]

And is optional in American English except for a hundred and seventy-five — but it's often so reduced as to be barely perceptible in speech.

Could you please write an example where it is optional?

 

[GoesStation]

And is optional in American English except for a hundred and seventy-five — but it's often so reduced as to be barely perceptible in speech.

Could you please write an example where it is optional?

I meant it's optional in all of the numbers you listed except the first. I've underlined the required "and" and put the optional ones in square brackets below.

175 one/a hundred and seventy-five
2,150 two thousand one hundred [and] fifty
3,009 three thousand [and] nine

 

[Rachel Adams]

I meant it's optional in all of the numbers you listed except the first. I've underlined the required "and" and put the optional ones in square brackets below.

Thank you. I misunderstood at first. And it's optional in American English only?

 

[GoesStation]

Thank you. I misunderstood at first. And it's optional in American English only?

I don't really know about other varieties.

 

[emsr2d2]

I can't say for certain that no native BrE speakers use it without "and" but I've never heard one omit it.