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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

6 month pregnant / 6 months pregnant

Hi, guys. I'm a student studying English speaking.
I have a simple question today.

Which sentence below is correct?

1. I'm 6-month pregnant.
2. I'm 6-months pregnant.
  

Top answer

I'm six months pregnant. No hyphen. It is also customary to spell out numbers under 10.

  • I'm six months pregnant.
  • No hyphen.
  • It is also customary to spell out numbers under 10.
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I'm six months pregnant.

No hyphen. It is also customary to spell out numbers under 10.
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Thank you, but I'd like to check if I got it explicitly.

For the numbers under 10, spelling out means writing six instead of 6(Arebian No.)
Then I can write those kinds of sentences this way.

"I'm eight months pregnant." "I'm eight years old."
"I'm nine months pregnant." "I'm nine years old."
"I'm 10 months pregnant." "I'm 50 years old."

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AnonymousAnd one of my friends wrote these words on his note."2-year old child""3-hour movie""10-kilogram bag"Are all the three wrong
No. It's just generally considered better style to write numbers up to ten or twelve in words.

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