Worth of
Hi,
"I filled two pages worth of reading when I was writing my essay."
"My tutor gave me twenty pages worth of material to go through."
Do these sentences make sense? I'm not sure if 'worth of' can be used like that, but I think that I heard it somewhere.
Thank you.
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Ann225 Do these sentences make sense? Yes, but they're not very idiomatic English. 'worth of' usually goes with amounts of money.
- Ann225 Do these sentences make sense?
- Yes, but they're not very idiomatic English.
- 'worth of' usually goes with amounts of money.
- I'd like five dollars' worth of sliced ham, please.
- Much less often, amounts of time.
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Ann225Do these sentences make sense?
Yes, but they're not very idiomatic English. 'worth of' usually goes with amounts of money.
I'd like five dollars' worth of sliced ham, please.
Much less often, amounts of time.
two weeks' worth of bad weather / two weeks of bad weather
For your sentences, 'worth' is omitted.
0The basic structure is X's worth of Y, where X and Y are two different but equivalent things. X is usually a quantity of some kind.
eg A dollar's worth of gas.
Now let's consider your sentences.
"I filled two pages' worth of reading writing when I was writing my essay." When you are writing, we say that you are producing pages of writing, not
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