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Zhfan Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Once in a hundred years

Hello.

Why do we put "a" before "hundred years"? "Years" is a plural noun.

Thanks.
  

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Hi Why do we put "a" before "hundred years"? a means quite a few things; it means one in certain contexts. His talk is about life before a hundred years (one hundred years).

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  • Hi Why do we put "a" before "hundred years"?
  • a means quite a few things; it means one in certain contexts.
  • His talk is about life before a hundred years (one hundred years).
  • "Years" is a plural noun It depends on the context Five years is a not a very long period.
  • (Here time is considered as one whole) Those years were pleasant.
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Hi

Why do we put "a" before "hundred years"?

a means quite a few things; it means one in certain contexts.

His talk is about life before a hundred years (one hundred years).

"Years" is a plural noun

It depends on the context

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Briefly the correct answer is

hundred is a singular noun so it takes (a)

and the noun that comes after hundred

must be put in the plural form
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