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Dante Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
prepositions...again.
- 40 dollar job? why do we take the "s" out from the word "dollar"? is it to make the word noun by itself that's why we modfy the dollar to serve as an adjective?
- fall to/in the wrong hands? would it imply a different meaning when used vice versa?
- none/not that i know of? why?
- champion for/of all time? why?
- in its heyday/s? why?
- the show is about what? / the show is what about?
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40-dollar job. Note the hyphen. Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated.
- 40-dollar job.
- Note the hyphen.
- Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated.
- g.
- players) that I know of .
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- 40-dollar job. Note the hyphen. Nouns as adjectives are singular: 10-minute break, ten-dollar bill, seven-year itch
- fall into the wrong hands-- this is the idiomatic phrasal verb, which cannot be manipulated.
- none that I know of = None (of the e.g. players) that I know of. Not that I know of = (The activity/condition does) not (exist) that I kn
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