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[quote=Anonymous]You should have said "leaving in large numbers, not "leaving in large amounts" because the fifth graders are individual entities that can be counted. "Amounts" is used when you're referring to things that aren't individually countable, such as, for example, "water." Thus, first ignoring the use of the ordinal numeral "5th" because of the degree of informality expected in a comment board format, the following query would be grammatically correct: "Why are Cap City rising 5th graders allowed to keep wasting large amounts of water because they carelessly forget to turn off the bathroom faucets?"[/quote]
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