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mfung

Joined: 18 Oct 2005
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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 4:53 am Post subject: 0.5 hour or 0.5 hours

We say half an hour, but we say point five hour or point five hours?

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lotus

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Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2014 1:57 pm Post subject:

Yes, we can say .5 hours. --lotus _________________ War does not make one great --Yoda

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mfung

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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2014 11:12 pm Post subject:

I don't understand why the plural form hours is used , because 0.5 hour is less than one hour.

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