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Three is are enough? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange In the first case, three (dogs) is the subject of TO BE, hence the plural In the second case, (having only) three (dogs) is the subject of TO BE, hence the singular My suspicion is that which case is more common will depend on the variety of English, as well as the noun in question
Equivalent of both when referring to three or more items? Interesting, thanks! Unfortunately that doesn't seem to me to be usable either, as "There are several recommendations I have to further improve the sites — all three to improve their profit, decrease their cost and improve their usability " sounds like the "three" counts the recommendations –
word choice - Three quarters vs. three fourths - English Language . . . the cast and crew returned to Los Angeles with three-fourths of the film finished; an aggregate area of more than three-fourths inch in diameter; the ratio of 3:4 is the diatessaron or fourth, producing an octave lute that is three-fourths the length of the descant, which in turn is three-fourths the length of the tenor
meaning - What does three by and five by mean? - English Language . . . I am studying a foreign language, but few good textbooks are available I was able to find a public domain language training manual for air force pilots published on-line It teaches the target language using English On a page of vocabulary and phrases, it lists the English terms "three by" and "five by"
What do we call the “rd” in “3ʳᵈ” and the “th” in “9ᵗʰ”? 301 st: (three-hundred-) fir st (shouldn't that be 301 th?, I'm not going there) Of course, in general, we call all these superscripts 'ordinal indicators,' and "suffixes," 'ordinal suffixes ' (We can see that there's no suffix as such until we come to 4, as we have ordinal names
Is there a proper term to describe ⅓ of a year (4 months)? There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly" In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or tri-annually(which means three times a year; not every 3 months) both being correct in the right context
Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . . The translators of the Authorized Version (KJV) must have decided to use the more poetic "three score years and ten" instead Meanwhile, the famous Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln begins with: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition