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英语中的三分之二:two third、two-thirds与two third在用法上 . . . 下面例句同一句子里 two-third 和two-thirds两个兼用: The rule governing train speeds stipulates that on certain tracks, the two-third rule applies to freight trains It means that the speed limit for a freight train is automatically two-thirds of the speed for passenger
nouns - Is it two-third or two-thirds? - English Language Usage Stack . . . A third, like any other unit of measurement, is dependent on the number of units described For example, we describe 'one apple' and 'two apples' The same goes for fractional units 'one third' is simply a single unit of 'third' Two or more and we use 'thirds'; hence, 'two-thirds' is the correct usage
hyphenation - Is two-thirds or two thirds correct? - English . . . "Two-thirds" is slightly more correct and anyone scoring a fill-in-the-blank section of a comprehension test is slightly more likely to mark it as a correct answer If you are curious about a technical correctness, than Fractions as phrasal (compound) adjectives discusses the issue in slightly more detail
verbs - two thirds or two third (of members) - English Language . . . So one third is singular, we only have one of these pieces Two thirds is plural, we have two of the pieces Returning to the example of money, consider quarters A quarter is a coin worth 25¢ or 1 4 of a dollar How many quarters do we have? One quarter, two quarters, three quarters: singular for one of them, plural for more than one
Is two-thirds plural? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Two thirds of the visitors were men (multiple visitors were men) The subject in this case - men - is plural The sentence doesn't make sense if the subject is singular (Two thirds of the visitors were man) I'll just change the meaning slightly so it works: One third of the man was on fire - Singular Two thirds of the man was on fire - Still
Is it proper to use ordinal suffixes on fractions? I know in more formal writing, spelling out fractions is preferred (e g two-thirds), and in math no suffix is used, but I frequently see ordinal suffixes being used on fractions (e g 2 3rds), even from reputable news sources 2 3 is already pronounced two-thirds and, to me, the addition of rds just looks weird and is certainly unnecessary