|
- How do you show possession with the word year (years vs. years)?
Between the years 1914 and 1918, Newfoundland lost an entire generation of young men to an unspeakable horror that was supposed to be the war to end all wars You would use years' when talking about more than one year in a possessive sense: We agreed to review our agreement in five years' time
- Years, Years, or Years? : r grammar - Reddit
Years, Year's, or Years'? I'm working on my resume and Microsoft Word keeps flagging this sentence "I have two years experience in Etc " According to Word it should be either Years' or Year's What are your guy's thoughts?
- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away The much older Latin Vulgate has the "70 years" as: "septuaginta anni", where the first word is clearly "70" without the use of "score"
- grammar - Two years experience or two years experience or two years . . .
So two weeks notice and two years experience are acceptable, however in the singular, the apostrophe is still required: one year's experience, or one week's notice I base this on the notion that an apostrophe at the end of a word (two years') is now considered both fussy and old-fashioned, and I tend to agree
- Is it “a couple years” or “a couple OF years” : r grammar - Reddit
It can be either Which one you use depends on what you (subconsciously) consider "a couple" to be If "a couple" is merely a quantity descriptor, like "a few" or "five," then you say "a couple years" (as you would say "a few years" or "five years")
- centennial vs. centurial - describing periods of 100 years
I'm interested in describing a record that spans multiple hundreds of years My writing partner suggests referring to this as quot;a centurial record of __ quot;, though intuition tells me that q
- Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate]
Closed 10 years ago 1½ is not yet 2 or more, so which do we properly say: "1½ years old" or "1½ year old"?
- differences - over the years thoughout the years for years - English . . .
over the years thoughout the years for years Ask Question Asked 6 years, 10 months ago Modified 6 years, 10 months ago Viewed 6k times
|
|
|