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Dozen, Hundred , Thousand, etc. - English lesson

   More than two dozen roses ...

1) ' a Score' ( = 20, in Old English), 'a Dozen' ( = 12 ), a 'hundred' ( =  100 ), a 'thousand' ( = 1,000 ), a 'million' ( = 1,000,000 ) and 'a billion' remain in the singular when they are multiplied by a precise number or preceded by 'several', 'a few', 'many'. 

Clearly, they are numeric adjectives, and like all adjectives, they always remain in the singular. They are followed by a noun (expressed or not). 

ex : How many demonstrators were there in front of the Capitol this morning ? Oh ! There were at least two thousand ...




ex: There are only six hundred people living in this village.


ex : Do you know that there were three thousand, two hundred and forty-five candidates in this worldwide  competition. 






                         






2) On the contrary, 'ten', 'score', 'dozen', hundred', 'thousand', 'million' , 'billion' must be in the plural, when they are followed by 'of ' and by a noun.
Indeed, they stop being adjectives and become  nouns linked to other nouns by the preposition 'of'.


ex : Dozens of eggs were broken in the collision of the delivery trucks.




ex : Millions of suburbans commute to NYC  every morning.



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Dozens of timesTen dozens of timesA dozen of timesTen dozens timesI don't know, I have dreamt of being someone else : I could be an explorer visiting three hundreds countriesthree hundreds of countriesthree hundred of countriesthree hundred countriesI don't know a year, I'd meet thousands of strangersthousands strangersthousand of strangersthousand strangersI don't know, would visit five hundreds of sitesfive hundreds sitesfive hundred sitesfive hundred of sitesI don't know, taking notes, would walk up several hundred stairsseveral hundred of stairsseveral hundreds stairsseveral hundreds of stairsI don't know and admire thousands of landscapesthousand of landscapesthousands landscapesthousand landscapesI don't know, all of them wonderful !
I could also be an intellectual ! (couldn't I?) I'd read hundred bookshundreds bookshundred of bookshundreds of booksI don't know, study a few thousand of articlesa few thousands of articlesa few thousands articlesa few thousand articlesI don't know about Quantum Physics ! Between my ten lecturesmy tens of lecturesmy ten of lecturemy tens lecturesI don't know and conference calls, I'd go to my office and take four dozen escalatorsfour dozens escalatorsfour dozens of escalatorsfour dozen of escalatorsI don't know and as many elevators, meet tens colleaguestens of colleaguesten of colleaguesten colleguesI don't know, drink two dozens of coffeetwo dozens of coffeestwo dozen coffeestwo dozens of coffeesI don't know a day communicate with hundred of peoplehundred peoplehundreds of peoplehundreds peopleI don't know living in the far away jungle and then, write five thousand pagesFive thousands of pagesfive thousands pagesfive thousand of pagesI don't know about their incredible ways of living.

But I' m afraid I'll be nobody but a normal New Yorker... Like fifteen million menfifteen millions menfifteen million of menfifteen millions of menI don't know and women a day, I'll take the subway, commute back home with million of othersmillions othersmillions of othersmillion othersI don't know, and at home, doze away studying my five hundreds-page reportfive hundreds pages reportfive hundred-page reportI don't know for the following morning meetings..
A rat race ? Millions of ratsMillions ratsMillion ratsMillion of ratsI don't know running the same race, just hoping they'll meet thousand of friendsthousand friendsthousands friendsthousands of friendsI don't know and smiles doing so !!!!

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