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“We three” vs “us three” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The three of us will go to the Express mall ("us" is correct because it follows "of") You can find us there, having a good time (No need to repeat "three" because it has just been said) If you really want to repeat "three", then we would say The three of us will go to the Express mall (This makes "three" the subject of the sentence)
The origin of two is company, three is a crowd The proverb was first recorded in the mid-19th century, in the form “Two is company but three is none,” (W C Hazlitt, English Proverbs [1869]) but the sentiment it expresses is of earlier origin Variants of this proverb: two is company but three is none; two's a couple, but three's a crowd, four's too many, and fives's not allowed
Word for three times a year. Is tri-quarterly a real word? It is possible that whoever used the term wanted to convey the idea that the three issues are published in three-month intervals, i e quarterly (say, in March, June,and September), and that one quarter is then skipped (in this example, there is no issue in December) Tri-quarterly would, however, still be a very bad term to use for that purpose
Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . . The translators of the Authorized Version (KJV) must have decided to use the more poetic "three score years and ten" instead Meanwhile, the famous Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln begins with: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
Is there a proper term to describe ⅓ of a year (4 months)? There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly" In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or tri-annually(which means three times a year; not every 3 months) both being correct in the right context
meaning - What does three by and five by mean? - English Language . . . I am studying a foreign language, but few good textbooks are available I was able to find a public domain language training manual for air force pilots published on-line It teaches the target language using English On a page of vocabulary and phrases, it lists the English terms "three by" and "five by"
word choice - Three quarters vs. three fourths - English Language . . . the cast and crew returned to Los Angeles with three-fourths of the film finished; an aggregate area of more than three-fourths inch in diameter; the ratio of 3:4 is the diatessaron or fourth, producing an octave lute that is three-fourths the length of the descant, which in turn is three-fourths the length of the tenor
Three is are enough? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In the first case, three (dogs) is the subject of TO BE, hence the plural In the second case, (having only) three (dogs) is the subject of TO BE, hence the singular My suspicion is that which case is more common will depend on the variety of English, as well as the noun in question