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Here's the English quiz for the day:
・What's wrong with this sentence?
"I have a 25 years old sister."
Also, I was writing this week about Moleskine notebooks. Did anybody notice the "Van Gogh Moleskines"? They're pretty cool. Van Gogh liked absinthe. I like it, too. ;-) How about you?
posted by ryecatcher @ 4:56 PM
2 Comments:
"I have a 25-year-old sister." is correct sentence. Isn't it right?
Sorry to be late in replying...
Yeah, that's correct.
(But to be honest, even though I'm a native speaker, I can never remember the rules for hyphens. :-o)
The main thing is: no 's' with years. I guess the "rule" is something like: plural nouns, but not when used as an adjective.
Like,
My boat is ten feet long.
I have a ten-foot boat. (we often seem to skip the hyphen)
The main thing is in spoken English the difference between singular and plural stands out.
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