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What do we call "twenty-nine" in "twenty-nine year old"?
She's twenty-nine year old.
Is twenty-nine here an adjective or a number?
16 dic 2014 12:12
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It should either be "She's twenty-nine years old" or "she's a twenty-nine-year-old (woman)."
In the first, "twenty-nine years" functions as a adverb phrase modifying the adjective "old".
In the second, "twenty-nine-year-old" is a adjective phrase modifying an elliptical noun that was likely mentioned in a prior sentence.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/84839/what-are-the-parts-of-speech-in-hes-fifty-years-old
16 dicembre 2014
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The correct form is either:
'She's twenty-nine years old.' or 'She's a twenty-nine year old.'
It really doesn't matter whether 'twenty nine' is an adjective, a noun or a cucumber. The important thing about grammar is to get it right.
16 dicembre 2014
numeral
18 dicembre 2014
She's twenty-nine years old.
You write "years" with s, since there are twenty-nine of them.
Twenty-nine is a number.
"I have a twenty-nine-year-old sister."
"My daughter is a twenty-nine-year-old."
Twenty-nine-year-old is an adjective.
16 dicembre 2014
i think twenty nine is a object, it addition mean full for the following word
16 dicembre 2014
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Cinese (mandarino), Inglese, Tedesco, Vietnamita
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Inglese, Tedesco
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