Jan 20, 2011 · You were taught correctly. "Amount" is the total of anything, "number" is a symbol or word indicating how many, and "quantity" is the amount or number of things; ability to be measured.

Jun 23, 2015 · The word amount is used in the singular to convey a single quantity: noun 1.0 A quantity of something, especially the total of a thing or things in number, size, value, or extent: sport gives an …

Grammar Amount of or number of? We use amount of with uncountable nouns. Number of is used with countable nouns: We use a huge amount of paper in the office every day. The amount of time it took …

Apr 23, 2012 · 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. This is confusing because both 'amount' is …

I believe that amount should only be used for uncountable things, like "pudding" number and count should only be used for countable things, like "baby aardvarks" quantity can be used for either, and …

Sep 4, 2014 · Amount is not a unit of measurement like hour, use an appropriate unit of measurement. Perhaps, US$/hr. Or, do you mean 'amount' in the sense of quantity?

Jul 25, 2019 · The problem is that most amount is correct—just not with something countable. With something countable, it should be the greatest number (or an equivalent count word). In short, it's …

Apr 11, 2020 · Traffic volume has been idiomatic for a very long time, going back to shipping in the 16th century. Volume made a bit more literal sense when talking about wine or timber, but has faithfully …

A Wikipedia article tells us that: A problem is regarded as inherently difficult if solving the problem requires a large amount of resources, whatever the algorithm used for solving it. What is a...

Jan 6, 2017 · The Ngram chart for "amount of data" (blue line) versus "number of data" (red line) shows a fairly healthy number of matches for both phrases: But appearances in this case are deceiving. A …