A half hour flight is fine with me. Many people prefer it with a hyphen: a half-hour flight. Half an hour is a correct expression: We waited half an hour. If it is used attributively, I would add an article for flight as well: It's a half an

which is right? 1. I work from home. I work at home. for the two sentences above, i mean, I have a job that is home-based. how do i say it? how about this sentence? 2. I am a work-from-home mom. I am a work-at-home mom. which is to use?

I did a search on the phrases "a read-through" and "a reading-through" on the Google Book Search and have gotten the numbers (I think they represent the number of sources that have such a phrase) 654 and 614 respectively.

a. It is a two hour drive from to . b. It is a two hour's drive from to . c. It is a two-hour drive from to . C. is the best alternative. A. is fine with me but some may object to the lack of a hyphen. As Mr M has said, the sentence is

Hi, Do project names have articles? For examle: if the name of the project is from another language like "Koira" do I write it in English "Koira-project" or "The Koira-project"? We commonly say 'I'm working on

Hi, Seems a bit like nobody cares for these long questions. QUESTION 5: Examples are given below. "I was wondering if it was still there." "I was wondering if it were still there." *Since "wondering" implies doubt and

Hello, again. I have 9 questions this time. Brace for impact. QUESTION 1: I have a question concerning the linking of 2 complete sentences with a comma. I know that it is correct to do this; however, consider that the 1st complete sentence

I m curious as to why you want to write this out long hand. The description as written is the usual way requirements are written. The short hand description is much clearer and more concise. Yeah, I know it's the usual way and actually I

From an article in the Manchester Guardian:- *.. in a ... apostrophe explain it all or is there a missing hyphen? Your Manchester Guardian must be yellow with age. I didn't know there *were* battered wives' shelters 50 years ago. John Dean

Henry wrote on 08 Jan 2005: From an article in the Manchester Guardian:- *.. in a battered wives' shelter..* Ignoring the context , I am not ... battered shelter for wives? or is it correct? Does the apostrophe explain it all or is there a