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floona

grammar question

what will be the correct answer and why? tell we if there are two possible answers

1) there are exactly .................. students in the college.

a) thousand

b) thousands

c) a hundred

d) hundreds

please am waiting.

27 Mar 2010

Mariethe House

thousands of students / one thousand students/ 5 thousand students

Hundreds of students/ one hundred students / ten thousand five hundred students!!

that�s what I �d say!!Wait for someone else�s explanation!

two hundred people: hundreds of people:
five thousand stars: thousands of stars:

It is also possible to say a hundred, a thousand...

27 Mar 2010

floona

i didn �t undersatnd

explain please

that means the possible answers are rong

27 Mar 2010

serene

a) a thousand

b) thousands of

c) a hundred (correct)

d) hundreds of

27 Mar 2010

floona

i didn �t undersatnd

explain please

that means the possible answers are rong

27 Mar 2010

adital

I �d say none of the above and here are the reasons:

If you want answer a to be the correct one the sentence has to be:

There is exactly a ............... students in the college.

If you want answer b to be the correct one

You should erase the word: exactly and add of:

There are thousands of students in the college.

If you want answer c to be the correct one the sentence should be:

There is exactly .................. students in the college.

If you want answer d to be the correct one exactly and add of:

There are hundreds of students in the college

27 Mar 2010

lshorton99

c is correct. If you are giving an exact figure then you need to have �a � or �one �.

I have to respectfully disagree with adital.

We use �there are � because we are referring to more than one student - �a hundred � is still more than one.

a cannot be correct because it lacks �a � or �one �

b and d cannot be correct because �thousands � and �hundreds � are not exact figures.

Hope that helps!

Lindsey

27 Mar 2010

blunderbuster

I second lshorton99.

c is correct

a is not complete

b and d are not exact

27 Mar 2010

yanogator

Yes, c is correct.

Bruce

27 Mar 2010

aquarius_gr

Agreed, c is the only correct answer.

@adital: you almost have a point :

It would be correct to say/write "There �s exaclty a hundred students........." which is not the same as There is. (weird but true)

27 Mar 2010

sulekra

If you �re saying exactly then you must say the number.
a hundred = one hundred
None of the others are precise...

27 Mar 2010

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