Hi, 1.with what does the article go? The word 'staggering' or some other one? It goes with the phrase 'fifty-two dollar bills', because the speaker/writer is regarding this as 'a single amount' Is this similar to 'an

Hi, 1.with what does the article go? The word 'staggering' or some other one? Is this similar to 'an extra ten dollars/ten percent' in phrasal pattern? A staggering fifty-two dollar bills were contaminated ... 2.Why is there no

Hi, Welcome to the Forum. I'd like to know which is a correct grammar of an adjective: - different mode supported (machine) - different modes supported (machine) I know that, if the adjective is less complex, such as "different mode

Hi, When she was 16-years-old a 16-year-old is a noun. 16 years old (ie no hyphens) is an adjectival phrase she ran away (preposition) from home and moved to London, then ( adverb) New York to work as ( adverb ) a nurse. During ( preposition)

My try: 1. The neighborhood Elaine Bolt lived in was composed of modest 1930' bungalows mixed with occasional apartment complexes. Is "apartment complex" a compound word? I think yes. Whare is the main stress and the secondary stress? In

I think a preposition can only be followed by noun, pronoun, gerund, and noun phrase. Please have a look on this POST . Link: www.englishforums.com/English/DifferenceBetweenMeaningThese-SentencesUsedPlayCricket/ *** /Post.htm Use

Hi Whl626! Thanks a lot for your help. Just a few questions... Whl626 wrote: As I will be graduating from the University of Applied Sciences in October – ***, I must confess that the Xs are a little bit confusing. The word after the hyphen

Hi, Swann discusses this at length in his Practical Engllish Usage, sections 422 to 425 (Nouns in Groups) in my edition. It's best if you can read this, or some other good grammar book, as it's hard to summarize all his detailed points. Here

40-dollar job. Note the hyphen. Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated. none that I know of = None (of the

Really sorry, Srdjan!