Earning money vs. earning dollars

Posted by pakguru on April 8th, 2016 | 0 comments | academic writing, grammar, IELTS, Part 3, speaking, Task 1, Task 2, writing

Just like their male counterparts, many Australian women earn money 2,000 dollars per month.

If a ‘unit’ can correspond to more than one different noun, then you need to specify your noun:

Shopkeeper

Good morning. Can I help you?

Customer

I’d like 2kg of rice, please.

In this example, kg could apply to many other nouns: potatoes, chocolate, etc, and so it is necessary to be specific about ‘rice’.

On the other hand if the unit can only correspond to a single noun – unambiguously –  then there’s no need to mention that noun:

Bank clerk

Good morning. Can I help you?

Customer

I’d like to withdraw 1,000 dollars, please.

In this example, ‘dollars’ clearly corresponds to ‘money’, and so it is redundant to say “1,000 dollars of money”.

If we apply this to the original problem then we get:

• Just like their male counterparts, many Australian women earn 2,000 dollars per month.