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“Price of goods” vs “Prices of goods”

English Language & Usage Asked on November 23, 2020

I was just asked, in referring to the sentence: “The price of goods in big cities is usually higher than in small cities,” if it’s okay to swap “price of goods” for “prices of goods.” I said that goods is a singular group, and prices would only be acceptable if you put a modifying adjective that breaks the singular group into multiple groups such as “the prices of various goods in big cities,” but now I’m starting to wonder if that’s correct.

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The results yielded from the iWeb Corpus indicate that both are correct and that "goods prices" and "goods price" are also accepted but not so frequently used.

Answered by Anshan Today on November 23, 2020

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