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GRAMMAR POLICE - Can you please check this?

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CornishTeaTime · 17/08/2024 14:52

Is it:

A. Featuring your business you can reach 1,000s of people each week

B. Featuring your business you can reach 1,000's of people each week

C. Featuring your business you can reach 1,000s' of people each week

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Danglers · 17/08/2024 14:53

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CornishTeaTime · 17/08/2024 14:55

So should it be...

D. thousand's
or
E. thousands'

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OlympicWomen · 17/08/2024 14:56

No. No apostrophe.

Helki111 · 17/08/2024 14:56

Option A as you don’t need the ‘s for plural form of numbers.

IsitaHatOrACat · 17/08/2024 14:56

No apostrophe needed

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OlympicWomen · 17/08/2024 14:57

Thousands in this instance isn't possessive, nor is there a letter missing, so as I said, no apostrophe.

IsitaHatOrACat · 17/08/2024 14:57

The sentence itself isn't great though. What does it mean?

Helki111 · 17/08/2024 14:58

CornishTeaTime · 17/08/2024 14:55

So should it be...

D. thousand's
or
E. thousands'

Neither as no apostrophe needed on the letters either

DadJoke · 17/08/2024 14:58

The people do not belong to the thousands, so no apostrophe. If it was groups of people you wouldn’t add one. So, A.

I agree that using thousands instead of 1,000s is better, but 1,000s is grammatically correct.

OlympicWomen · 17/08/2024 14:59

IsitaHatOrACat · 17/08/2024 14:57

The sentence itself isn't great though. What does it mean?

Yes, that's what I was wondering! Perhaps restructure the sentence?
Are you advertising something to extend the reach of various businesses? Perhaps just write that.

TheTripThatWasnt · 17/08/2024 15:01

No apostrophe.
The written word is better than the number.
The sentence doesn't make sense! What is the point you are trying to get across?

CrunchyCarrot · 17/08/2024 15:02

No apostrophe! It's a plural, plurals don't use apostrophes.

SiobhanSharpe · 17/08/2024 15:02

Style guide at my last place of work (business/media) would have it as 1000s or thousands. Either would be acceptable.
No commas or apostrophes anywhere. But that was just them.

Danglers · 17/08/2024 15:04

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Colddipinthemorning · 17/08/2024 15:04

Agree about the sentence, it needs to be reworded, it's unclear in its current format. One of these would be better:

Featuring your business will reach thousands of people each week

By featuring your business, you will reach thousands of people each week

Zonder · 17/08/2024 15:06

Colddipinthemorning · 17/08/2024 15:04

Agree about the sentence, it needs to be reworded, it's unclear in its current format. One of these would be better:

Featuring your business will reach thousands of people each week

By featuring your business, you will reach thousands of people each week

This. Or same but with the word can instead of will if you want to keep that.

Drachuughtty · 17/08/2024 15:08

The sentence doesn't make sense. And yes it should be thousands.

Manchesteruser · 17/08/2024 15:12

You'll reach thousands (1 thousand or 900 thousand?) of people every week if you feature your business with us/here/on this site/in this magazine.

SiobhanSharpe · 17/08/2024 15:15

As said, our style guide insisted the numbers one to nine should be written out, above that it should be in figures uness it was one, eg one hundred, one thousand etc.
So 250, 2500, up to a million when you'd write two million and not 2,000,000.
But 2.5 million had to be written thusly. Then it changed and we had to write million as mln. But billion was always billion until billions became more commonplace. Then that changed to bln. I think it's still trillion and quadrillion....
I never said it was consistent!

thecatneuterer · 17/08/2024 15:16

IsitaHatOrACat · 17/08/2024 14:57

The sentence itself isn't great though. What does it mean?

That's what I wanted to ask

thecatneuterer · 17/08/2024 15:19

Colddipinthemorning · 17/08/2024 15:04

Agree about the sentence, it needs to be reworded, it's unclear in its current format. One of these would be better:

Featuring your business will reach thousands of people each week

By featuring your business, you will reach thousands of people each week

Great. Both read well and make sense, unlike the original

Danglers · 17/08/2024 15:24

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thecatneuterer · 17/08/2024 15:27

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"has ran"? 😁

PaminaMozart · 17/08/2024 15:27

thecatneuterer · 17/08/2024 15:16

That's what I wanted to ask

Me too.

As it is, A is correct, but thousands would be better.

I agree that By featuring your business, you will reach thousands of people each week is much better.

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