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Aug 22, 2013 · US English. Aug 22, 2013. #13. Getting back to threesome vs. three-way: while I had a three-way is unambiguously sexual, the word three-way can be used innocently in many other ways. A three-way intersection (of three roads) is not in a risque relationship. L.
Dec 3, 2009 · English, USA. Dec 3, 2009. #3. It is usually understood that "three days" here is representing a length of time or a period. " (A period of) three days isn't long enough for a good holiday." If you change it to are you would be talking about the length of each individual day. I suppose it's simply an idiomatic quirk of English.
May 10, 2024 · I think that it is mostly about the article. If you want to use the possessive version, omit the article: It's only about three hours' journey (from here). If you want to use the article, use a three-hour journey/walk, etc: It's only about a three-hour journey/walk.*. * You can use a normally before day's to mean a walk of one day : It's a day ...
Mar 7, 2011 · Mar 7, 2011. #6. That is correct. In compound numerals, 'hundred' and 'thousand' stay invariable: three hundred, two thousand nine hundred etc. The plural is only used to show a large but approximate quantity: hundreds of people, thousands of cars, hundreds of thousands of ants etc. 2.
Mar 13, 2022 · India. India - Hindi. Mar 13, 2022. #1. Dear All, I would like to understand in detail the difference between "three-way" (in a non-sexual context) and "three ways". My understanding is that "three-way" is an adjective -- and therefore should modify a noun or a linking verb -- whereas "three ways" is an adverb, and should therefore modify a verb.
Jun 24, 2017 · They have to choose from three cases, about which they have already read. Then, later on, there will be two more cases (nr. 4 and nr.
May 21, 2008 · A "three-year experience" means that you had an experience that lasted three years. For example: "I lived in France in the 1990s. It was a wonderful three-year experience". "This position requires three years' experience" means, as you know, work experience. Frankly, I dislike this shortening of the proper phrase which is, in my mind "three ...
Aug 19, 2007 · 1 If all the three sentences are different, mark 5 as the answer i.e., “all different.”. 81. A). 2 To place three circles ( whose radii are 10 , 15 , and 20 ) for that three right lines may be drawn each , to touch all the three circles. 3 Not only has every Buddha all the three bodies or aspects , but as all men are of the same essence...
Aug 27, 2011 · Saying "three-and-twenty" is outdated English, but was perfectly correct in past centuries (don't nail be down on exactly when this way of counting died out). There is the famous English nursery rhyme that goes like this:
May 26, 2020 · Massachusetts, U.S. English - U.S. May 26, 2020. #3. "Southie" is the South Boston neighborhood, heavily Irish at that time. The projects are, as Myridon posted, public housing. Three-decker buildings are like those in the picture (which happens to show one in Cambridge, but they were much the same). They were typically occupied by three families.
