{"id":1,"date":"2023-01-12T14:21:17","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T13:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:06:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:06:59","slug":"million-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/million-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"million vs millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Voici deux titres d&rsquo;articles utilisant le mot <em>million<\/em>, sans -s dans le premier, avec un -s dans le second :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00ab\u00a0<em><strong>4 million<\/strong> Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb (USA Today, 13 December 2016).<\/li>\n<li>\u00ab\u00a0<em><strong>Millions<\/strong> of fake euros found in Bulgaria<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb (BBC News, 2 Novembre 2016).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dans le premier exemple, <em>million<\/em> est utilis\u00e9 au singulier alors qu&rsquo;on pr\u00e9cise bien qu&rsquo;il y en a 4. C&rsquo;est justement la raison pour laquelle on ne met pas de -s. \u00c0 l&rsquo;inverse, on met un -s si on ne conna\u00eet pas le nombre exact : <em>millions<\/em> indique une quantit\u00e9 impr\u00e9cise alors que <em>4 million<\/em> indique une quantit\u00e9 pr\u00e9cise.<\/p>\n<p>Cette r\u00e8gle s&rsquo;applique \u00e9galement \u00e0 <em>dozen, hundred, thousand<\/em>&#8230; :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>7000 thousand people went to the meeting.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Thousands of people went to the meeting.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voici deux titres d&rsquo;articles utilisant le mot million, sans -s dans le premier, avec un -s dans le second : \u00ab\u00a04 million Americans could be drinking toxic water and would never know\u00a0\u00bb (USA Today, 13 December 2016). \u00ab\u00a0Millions of fake euros found in Bulgaria\u00a0\u00bb (BBC News, 2 Novembre 2016). Dans le premier exemple, million est&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammaire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fautes-frequentes-anglais.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}