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1. Not "amount". Number. If you like people, refer to people as individuals, not aggregates.

Mon May 22, 2017, 09:14 PM

May 2017

People are countable.

Dirt is measured in an "amount" because it is not countable.

(P.S. You asked for it with "get off my grass" )

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