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Alpachino10 Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Win

She won the competition among all six-years-old children.

Would you please tell me if the above sentence is wrong?
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alpachino10 She won the competition among all six-years-old children. The adjectival form you want is "six-year-old". ) Your sentence is understandable, but not idiomatic.

— CalifJim

  • alpachino10 She won the competition among all six-years-old children.
  • The adjectival form you want is "six-year-old".
  • ) Your sentence is understandable, but not idiomatic.
  • You need something like this.
  • She won (the competition) in the six-year-old [category / division / class].
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alpachino10She won the competition among all six-years-old children.
The adjectival form you want is "six-year-old". (Not plural.) Your sentence is understandable, but not idiomatic. You need something like this.

She won (the competition) in the six-year-old [category / division / class].

CJ
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Thank you. But I prefer to have a sentence which clearly mentions to all competitors. For example, I want to say that she won a completion in which all six-year-old children of a town took part. (I want such a sentence in a nicer way)
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alpachino10She won a completion competition in which all six-year-old children of a in (the) town took part.
A nicer way? What's not nice about that? The more information you want to put into the sentence, the more clauses you'll need.

Maybe:

She won a competition for all six-year-olds in (the) town.

Th
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