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The Ones You Over-Corrected
Eight cards. Two of them keep their plural.
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Learner removes plurals from uncountable nouns and from nouns used as modifiers, which is the predictable over-correction from Sprint 2.1.
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Eight cards. Two of them keep their plural.
Six pairs. Two of them keep the plural.
Which is correct?
Noun describing noun, exact numbers, and words already plural.
✓ a five-year-old boy
✓ a two-hour meeting
✓ a ten-minute walk
The number already carries the plural meaning, so the noun does not repeat it.
Ten phrases. Two are already correct.
She has a five-years-old son. →
We sat through a two-hours meeting. →
Two hundreds people applied. →
Hundreds of people applied. →
The school employs three thousands staff. →
Womens and childrens were evacuated first. →
Many researches support this view. →
The station is a ten-minutes walk away. →
He started the company in his twenties. →
Informations are freely available. →
A compound description and an exact number.
Sentence 1: describe something using a number and a noun together — a ___-year-old, a ___-hour, a ___-minute.
Sentence 2: use an exact number over a hundred.
Keep both short.
One per line.