Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack …
网页2011年5月21日 — 15. If you're going to use a symbol rather than spell out the currency's name, you should always put the currency symbol directly to the left of the digits: "$10" and never "10 $". As for the placement of the country indicator, it's generally before the symbol/amount string: "US $10", although I have seen …
syntactic analysis - It costs $10 a/per person [syntax] - English ...
网页2020年4月12日 — Per/a person are two distributive adjuncts that modify $10. They have indipendent status as adjuncts, as the displacement test shows: "per person it costs..." @Nico Adjuncts are modifiers in clause structure, not noun phrase structure. "A person" is an NP and "per person" is a PP. They each function as …
vocabulary - Should I use 10 cent words or $2 words? - English …
网页2014年10月18日 — Rule 1: Don't use a $2 word where a 10 cent word will do. Rule 2: Don't use a 10 cent word where a 10 cent word won't do. In other words, don't use long or obscure words purely for the sake of it - but don't hesitate to use them where they convey a particular meaning or nuance better than the alternatives. Context is also important: in a novel ...
What is the correct way to write a range of dollar figures?
网页2011年8月15日 — What is the best way to express the range from $4.5 billion to $5.2 billion? Is the following correct? ... between $4.5 and $5.2 billion ...
charge $10 from/to me? - English Language & Usage Stack …
网页Apr 21, 2022 at 7:23. The charge is made to the person but the money is demanded from them. The charge is the means by which the demand is made. Thus "The cafe made a charge of $10 to Mr Smith for the broken crockery" or "The cafe asked for $10 from Mr Smith for the broken crockery". The demand passes to Mr Smith but the money comes from him.
How to spell out dollars and cents [duplicate]
网页5. If you're writing the amount on a check, where the word "dollars" is preprinted at the end of the line, the convention is to write "Forty-two thousand and 00/100", which is then followed by the pre-printed "dollars". If you're writing in most other contexts, the convention is to write "forty-two thousand dollars and fifty-seven cents".
expressions - How to express $1m in a formal document? - English ...
网页2014年9月22日 — 1 million$ deal — just plain wrong, currency symbol is not suffixed to words. $1m deal — correct, but unidiomatic. The options would thus be: One million dollar deal — should be okay. A million dollar deal — idiomatic, preferred in literary/ narrative use. A $1m deal — use in shortened versions, titles, captions, abstracts ….
What is the difference between 20$ and $20? [closed]
网页In English, the dollar sign is placed before the amount, so the correct order is $20, as others have noted. However, when you see people using 20$, it's likely they're being influenced by a few different things: Many other countries (and the Canadian province of Quebec) put the currency symbol after the amount.
what is the correct abbreviation for millions, billions and trillions ...
网页2014年2月1日 — 10 UK media tend to use m and bn for million and billion : " Grenier rejects £10m Newcastle switch ", " Liberty Global buys Ziggo for €10bn ". However, this usage is much less common in the US.
"is" vs "are" when followed by a number - English Language
网页7. I read the following sentence on YouTube and initially thought it was grammatically incorrect: Here are 10 minutes of the movie Black Hawk Down! I thought "are" should have been "is" but then I realized minutes is plural so the plural form, are, is used correctly. I also thought how most people would naturally say "Here is ten dollars in ...