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MISCALCULATION OF USING "NUMBER" AND "AMOUNT", what amount of, what number of, a number of, any amount of, no amount of, any number of,,,,

Do you think the given sentence is correct? 
Ex :- what amount of books, you want?  
Ex - : what number of water you can drink in a day?  If you think that these are right then I tell you these are wrong, same confusion has been a found among children and they also make similar mistakes. 
but now they will not calculate them wrongly , today through this blog they will learn how to use them correctly.

First of all it has to be known that how they are used,. 

NUMBER - :  is used for countable items. 
while 
AMOUNT - : is used for uncountable items. 
Lets understand them through examples, 
Ex-: I have number of books which help you to improve your english. 

Ex - : She has amount of knowledge to solve these questions. 

Ex-: what amount of money you really need to get out of this problem. 

Ex - : I have number of options, don't worry i will handle all of them. 

While using them, we have to keep in mind the formats, these are the formats which we have to keep in mind.

For ( NUMBER), 
NUMBER + OF + PLURAL COUNTABLE NOUN. 

For (AMOUNT), 
AMOUNT + OF + UNCOUNTABLE NOUN. 


MORE TO KNOW
The  amount is called uncountable noun, which means that it measures
such as  money, knowledge, water. 

The number is called countable noun, which means that it counts such as books, movies, trains, buses, planes. 

I hope that now there will be no confusion regarding AMOUNT and NUMBER, if you still have any confusion then you can tell me through comments, I will try to solve your problems. 

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