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Guest Posted 22 years ago
Grammar
A few questions
Could anyone kindly give me a quick confirmation for each of the following questions?
- "In 54° heat" : would you read it: "in fifty-four degree heat"?
- Do you pronounce the "s" in the word "genres" (even though it's a French word)?
- In an elevator, would you say "what (or which) floor" when you offer to push a button for somebody?
- Would you say " That (or those) twenty dollars was (or were) very useful"
- When a native speaker writes "Mr. Wilkins' car" would he/she actually say "Mr Wilkins's car" ? In other words, when you don't add an "s" after the apostrophe, would you pronounce it anyway?
I'd greatly appreciate it if you could answer at leat a couple of the above.
Thank you so much
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- "In 54° heat" : would you read it: "in fifty-four degree heat"?
- Do you pronounce the "s" in the word "genres" (even though it's a French word)?
- In an elevator, would you say "what (or which) floor" when you offer to push a button for somebody?
- Would you say " That (or those) twenty dollars was (or were) very useful"
- When a native speaker writes "Mr. Wilkins' car" would he/she actually say "Mr Wilkins's car" ? In other words, when you don't add an "s" after the apostrophe, would you pronounce it anyway?
I'd greatly appreciate it if you could answer at leat a couple of the above.
Thank you so much
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Top answer
Hey there! Hope I can be of some help: It is uncommon to include the temperature after a preposition, but you would indeed pronounce the symbol while speaking. You do indeed pronounce the s when saying "genres," although it sounds mighty weird!
- Hey there!
- Hope I can be of some help: It is uncommon to include the temperature after a preposition, but you would indeed pronounce the symbol while speaking.
- You do indeed pronounce the s when saying "genres," although it sounds mighty weird!
- "What floor" and "which floor" are both commonly acceptable in colloquy.
- " Since dollars is plural here, you want to make everything coincide.
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Hey there! Hope I can be of some help:
It is uncommon to include the temperature after a preposition, but you would indeed pronounce the symbol while speaking.
You do indeed pronounce the s when saying "genres," although it sounds mighty weird!
"What floor" and "which floor" are both commonly acceptable in colloquy.
"Those twenty dollars were very useful."
It is uncommon to include the temperature after a preposition, but you would indeed pronounce the symbol while speaking.
You do indeed pronounce the s when saying "genres," although it sounds mighty weird!
"What floor" and "which floor" are both commonly acceptable in colloquy.
"Those twenty dollars were very useful."
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First let me thank you for the detailed explanations you provided. It was very kind of you to take the trouble to write back so promptly. As for question number one, however uncommon and awkward that noun phrase may sound, I read it in TIME magazine last month (December issue, page 65) so I was just wondering how to pronounce it. Quote :" Even in 54° heat, the Tomb Raiders sometimes ran patrols
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