Wednesday, April 20, 2016

singular vs plural - Two-year program or Two-years program?



Which is correct, a "two-year" program or "two-years" program?


The difference between two expressions is the absence/presence of "s", i.e., singular or plural.



Answer



When we use counted elements as adjectives, they take a hyphen and lose the plural ending -s, because adjectives don't have plural forms in English:



Here are some examples:


a two-year program, a 3-day hike, a two-hour test, a four-year-old child, a 100-year war


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