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The origin of two is company, three is a crowd A company consisting of three is worth nothing It is the Spanish opinion who say that to keep a secret three are too many, and to be merry they are too few John Collins provides this translation which resembles more closely the English proverb (1834) “Three persons in company are too many for any secret affair, and two few for social
Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . . 3 Why is it 'three score years and ten' almost half the time and not always 'three score and ten years'? Note: I edited the question body and title in light of comments and answers pointing me to a Google phrase frequency chart which indicates that the two versions are used about equally often right now
Three of which vs three of them? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange The correct sentence is: Four pits have been unearthed, three of which contained gold 'Of which' is correct because you need a possessive form to accurately describe the relationship between the three pits and the gold Three of the pits contain gold, i e , the gold is their 'possession' (in the grammatical sense)
Is there a verb counterpart to pair when bringing together three things Whereas a pair has a lot of specific associations in English (couples, card games, chromosomes, body parts), trios are rarer, and bringing three items together (rather than two or four) is rarer still Rarely, people do turn trio into a verb, though in a specific sense referring to playing against an opponent in a group of three
With three people in a sentence, how to refer to the second one in the . . . 2 You could refer to their numerical place in the enumeration If there were three parties in the names list, then in the next phrase you say that the first guy is describing the second guy to the third (actually using the ordinal) It would work even for longer enumerations -- fourth, fifth etc