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Victo Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Okay to punctuation in all below
Okay to punctuation in all below?
The play lasted two hours twenty minutes forty seconds.
a two-hour twenty-minute forty-second play
And would you use numbers instead?
The play lasted 2 hours 20 minutes and 40 seconds.
or:
The play lasted 2 hours 20 minutes 40 seconds.
a 2-hour, 20-minute, 40-second play
or:
a 2-hour 20-minute 40-second play
Thanks.
The play lasted two hours twenty minutes forty seconds.
a two-hour twenty-minute forty-second play
And would you use numbers instead?
The play lasted 2 hours 20 minutes and 40 seconds.
or:
The play lasted 2 hours 20 minutes 40 seconds.
a 2-hour, 20-minute, 40-second play
or:
a 2-hour 20-minute 40-second play
Thanks.
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You do not seem to be getting replies, so let me just comment that I wouldn't write it in any of those ways. But I don't think you want other suggestions. Clive
- You do not seem to be getting replies, so let me just comment that I wouldn't write it in any of those ways.
- But I don't think you want other suggestions.
- Clive
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You do not seem to be getting replies, so let me just comment that I wouldn't write it in any of those ways.
But I don't think you want other suggestions.
Clive
But I don't think you want other suggestions.
Clive
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In a literary kind of context.
The play lasted two hours, twenty minutes and forty seconds.
In a business kind of context.
The play lasted 2 hours
The play lasted two hours, twenty minutes and forty seconds.
In a business kind of context.
The play lasted 2 hours
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Thank you, Clive.
For the compound modifiers, would you agree with these?
two-hour, twenty-minute and forty-second play
a two-hour, twenty-minute, forty-second play
For the compound modifiers, would you agree with these?
two-hour, twenty-minute and forty-second play
a two-hour, twenty-minute, forty-second play
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I'm not familiar with what the style guides suggest about this. I just know how I would naturally say it. And it wouldn't be like that.
Clive
Clive
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