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Old Eladio Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

Giving the address

0Please, could you tell me if the correct way to say the complete address where a person lives is something like this (suppose that this address exists):02br
01b00I live 01i01u00in02u02i00 New York, 01i01u00at02u02i00 two forty-eight (248) Fifth Avenue, between the sixty 01i01u00second02u02i00 and sixty 01i01u00fourth02u02i00 streets, in New Jersey suburb.02b02br
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01b00I live 01i01u00on02u02i00 00.02b02br
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01b00a) Is it correct the use of the prepositions in and at in the way I used them?02b02br
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01b00b) Is it correct the use of “the” in the way I used it (01i01u00the02u02i00 sixty 01i01u00second02u02i00 and sixty 01i01u00fourth02u02i00 streets00)02b02br
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01b00c) Sixty two or 00?02b02br
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01b00d) Have I to say Two forty eight or Two hundred forty eight or Two forty 01u00eighth02u00?02b02br
01b00e) Have I to write the number of the house with a dash (-)?02b02br
01b00f) “in 00 suburb” or “in 01i01u00the02u02i00 00 suburb” (maybe neighborhood instead of suburb?) (Suppose I want to remark the fact, for a stranger, that 00 is a suburb, neighborhood?)02b02br
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01b00g) I live On 00 or I live At 00?02b02br
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01b00And thank you in advance02b02br
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01b00Eladio02b0-
  

Top answer

0a) yes02br 02br 00b) no. Sixty-second street and sixty-fourth street. These are not really ordinal numbers, they are names.

  • 0a) yes02br 02br 00b) no.
  • Sixty-second street and sixty-fourth street.
  • These are not really ordinal numbers, they are names.
  • I won second prize.
  • 02br 02br 00c) Sixty-second02br 02br 00d) Two forty-eight is the most common.
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0a) yes02br
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00b) no. Sixty-second street and sixty-fourth street. These are not really ordinal numbers, they are names. Also...I won second prize. Second is the name of the prize, not the ordinal number.02br
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00c) Sixty-second02br
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00d) Two forty-eight is the most common. Two hundred forty-eight is fine. Two Four Eigh
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0Thank you ever so much Old Man Gordon!02br
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00Eladio0-

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