OP is now asking about the usage of amount is a sentence such as: The number of people commuting by bus considerably increased in the year of 2013. and asks whether amount or proportion could replace number. Cambridge Dictionary defines amount as follows and includes a Grammar Note: amount noun [countable]

2011年1月20日 · Amount is normally used for nouns that can't be measured. The amount of animosity generated by his comments was out of all proportion to his words. But it can also be used for things that can be measured (as @psmears points out below), especially money: Please send your payment in the amount of $253.79. Quantity is used for nouns you can measure.

2012年4月23日 · (if you take away the prepositional phrase, nothing else whould change, 'the amount, it will grow'. See what happens with ...large amount of apples and the fact that X will exponentially grow. If you said 'they will grow', you'd presumably be referring to the individual apples, but instead you are talking about the -amount- that will grow.

2015年6月23日 · The large amount of each individual's expenditure could be tallied together as a single large amount of money, but the pluralization expresses a sense of the complexity. Even the large amount of an individual's expenditure can be expressed as a plural to communicate the various budget items or transactions within the expenditure:

Examples about the usages with count, number and amount -- wrong or right? I have 7 liters of juice. This amount is too much to drink alone. I have 17 sparse polynomials. This count is irrelavant. (how my programming would say) I have 17 sparse polynomials. This number is irrelavant. (Used amount but guided to number)

2020年4月11日 · Volume of data stored – The amount of data stored is a key driver for the database platform required. From David Haertzen, The Analytical Puzzle Data Warehousing, Business Intelligence and Analytics, 2012. This would add unnecessary complexity to the database and vastly increase the amount of data to be manipulated

2016年2月25日 · amounts to means adds up to.Example: Greg Smith won £6 and Alex Smith won £5, that amounts to £11 in winnings for the Smith family.

2011年5月21日 · As for the placement of the country indicator, it's generally before the symbol/amount string: "US $10", although I have seen "$10 US" in magazines as well, so (as long as you're consistent) I wouldn't worry too much. If you choose "USD", it seems to be your choice whether to put it to the left or the right: "USD 10" or "10 USD".

2011年11月25日 · If it is exactly equivalent to the amount of money owed, then cash tendered is equal to (the amount of) cash paid. Scenario 2. If the amount of cash tendered is greater than the amount owed, a credit balance is owed to the customer. The credit might be change, or it might be entered onto the books of the business as an A/P item due to that ...

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