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)

Dozens of UN humanitarian workers are exposed to risk on their job every day. A good example is truck drivers who deliver much needed food to remote villages in poor countries to combat malnutrition , which is becoming more and more widespread.

. (1) So, can we use hyphen in the above sentence as "five-years-old" or is it wrong to use?-- Wrong. ' A three-year-old' is a pronoun. (2) Does the second sentence need any correction or rephrasing? -- In the first sentence,

I find your sentence very satisfactory. It may be Jane Austenish but there is no law against such language even today. Why should everybody speak and write in exactly the same way in English? People don't do that in many other languages. I see

Just a side note, with nothing to do with the commas: ...and giving it to its soldiers. Most corporations do not have soldiers, so this pronoun leaves me wondering who or what the soldiers do belong to. Of course, if this is science fiction,

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, I have two phrases below and wish you would answer some questions. 1. uses as a "getting to know each other" game/activity How do we know when do hypenate the phrase in quotation marks or just write them out as a person has done

Thanks Clive Please look at the following sentences of the above. Nearby, a huge crane waited to lift it into place on top of the church dome, for the crowning moment of a reconciliation process that has lasted nearly 60 years

VERY interesting question, Guest-- because it caused me to discover that Google does not distinguish between hyphenated words and two-word nouns. Results: 'Woman hater'- 8170 hits 'Woman-hater' - 8170 hits 'Women hater' - 5090 hits