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trilogy vs a group of two, four, ... books, movies, etc : One reason for the special use of this expression could be the special form of a trilogy. Unlike a pair of books or films, it often has an entry, a main part and an end - which gives it an almost "classical" character (remember popular ones like "Lord of the Rings").
To increase/decrease/reduce by X times/times. - WordReference Forums : Unfortunately English is ambiguous in this respect. People argue about it. Everyone thinks it's obvious that 'four times bigger' means X and 'four times as big' means Y, but they disagree about X and Y. If the budget was £1000 and it increased (by) eight times, or by a factor of eight, or by eight, is it now £8000 or £9000? We have previous ...
In a chaise and four - WordReference Forums : The ?Four? refers to the number of horses pulling the carriage. However, most chaises only had two horses pulling it as that was more economical. Four horses are expensive! When Mrs. Bennet mentions to Mr. Bennet that Mr. Bingley has a chaise and four, this is to impress upon his wealth. He has enough money to throw around that he has four ...
Two and two is/are four - WordReference Forums : The addition of Two and two is equal to four. {Two plus two} is equal to four. -> {Two plus two} is a single action/idea. Compare "{The beatings that the boys received} is a bad thing." The calculation, {Two plus two}, is equal to four. -> another possibility Two five s are equal to ten. <- note plural subject
in two weeks/ weeks' or week's time? | WordReference Forums : Re: in two weeks/weeks' time/weeks time Thank you for your answers. Funny, in my book (Handbuch des englischen Sprachgebrauchs - it is mainly written in German) it says with a plural construction you can use it with or without the apostroph (examples from the book):
The usage of a dash (-) when writing numbers: thirty(-) four : There is no "and" between the "two hundred" and the "thirty-four". "Thirty-four" is written with a hyphen. When writing the number 234.45 on a check, you would do this regardless of whether the amount was in dollars, or pounds, or euros, or any other decimal currency.
Telling time: a quarter or quarter [to/past] - WordReference Forums : Hi to all, I am wondering if you could help me with the following: Which of the two is correct? it's a quarter to/past two OR it's quarter to/past two Does it have to do anything with British or American English? Some school books present it in one way and some others in another way...
«x times less» ? bad way to express a ratio? - WordReference Forums : Well, maybe readily understood by some, benny ? but not by everyone, as is shown by some of the posts in the thread that JS linked to in #4. (I particularly liked cuchuflete's suggestion of a letter to the editor, asking " Just what the hell do you people mean by "four times less"?). Come to think of it, it seems odd to me that anyone would ...
"around five p.m." or "at around 5 p.m." - WordReference Forums : Hello all, my question might be a typical case of splitting hairs since it doesn't make much of a difference whether or not you use the preposition "at"... but just out of curiosity, can anybody tell me if both of the following sentences are gramatically correct? 1) It gets dark at around 5...
Telling the Time (0 = 'oh') - WordReference Forums : Hi everybody, We can tell the time this way: It's one fifteen. It's one twenty. But: It's one oh five. When to add "oh"? I am wondering whether it's one oh ten or one ten :-< Thank you very much in advance for your help. Regards, Linh (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)