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Phrase: It's a 120 years year-old building



 
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Phrase: It's a 120 years year-old building #1 (permalink) Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:46 am   Phrase: It's a 120 years year-old building
 

Please read: It's a 120 year-old building.

Please tell me corect or not correct.

a. It's a one hundred and twenty year-old building.
b. It's a a hundred and twenty year-old building.
c. It's a hundred and twenty year-old building.
d. It's one hundred and twenty year-old building.

It is sure that (a) and (b) are not correct :D . If only (c) and (d) are correct, how to distinguish btw the article "a" for building and the "a" of "120"?

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Question #2 (permalink) Sun Aug 06, 2006 11:49 am   Question
 

Hi,

I have another question for you. These questions you ask with multiple choice answers - are they made by you personally or are they part of an exercise you are doing?

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Question #3 (permalink) Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:16 pm   Question
 

Hi Alan,

No, they aren't homework.

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Thank you #4 (permalink) Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:27 pm   Thank you
 

Hi Khanh,

Thank you for your very full and honest answer. It was good to hear your reasons and to learn some more about you. Please don't think that your questions are silly. Any question is worth asking and we do our best to give an answer. I certainly would appreciate it if, as you say, you'll give some background on your questions so that in context we can give you a more satisfactory answer. And another point is that the other users online can get some idea of the nature of the question

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Thank you #5 (permalink) Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:31 pm   Thank you
 

Hi,

If you are free, please answer me the question.

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120 #6 (permalink) Sun Aug 06, 2006 12:38 pm   120
 

Hi,

It's a one hundred and twenty year old building

It's a hundred and twenty year old building

Would be my choices.

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Phrase: It's a 120 years year-old building #7 (permalink) Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:17 am   Phrase: It's a 120 years year-old building
 

Van Khanh wrote:
It's a 120 year-old building.


It's a 120-year-old building.
This is correct.
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