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ddsony
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 Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:42 pm Post subject: "three metre" or "three metres"as attrib |
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The soldier cannot get over the three metre/three metres wall.
"three metre" or "three metres"as attributive modifying wall? |
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trannamsj
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:56 pm Post subject: Re: "three metre" or "three metres"as at |
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| ddsony wrote: |
sentence:
The soldier cannot get over the three metre/three metres wall.
"three metre" or "three metres"as attributive modifying wall? |
This sentence can be written: "The soldier cannot get over the three-metre wall." |
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Anuradha Chepur
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| Posted: Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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| 'three metre wall' is a compound word, and as per word formation rules, the modifiers in a compound word are singular. ('toothbrush' and not 'teethbrush', 'a two week course' and not 'a two weeks course', and so on). |
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