Learn English – “Hundreds of millions of dollars” VS “Hundreds of millions dollars”

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Are both "Hundreds of millions of dollars" VS "Hundreds of millions dollars" grammatically and semantically correct/identical?

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"Millions of dollars" is the correct form.

In English, a plural noun used for counting or measuring purposes is always used with of, even if that noun just looks like a number:

  • millions of dollars
  • dozens of buckets
  • thousands of lawyers

Note that this is a little different from simply using the number, like "two million dollars".

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