What is the difference between years old and year old

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When should you hyphenate the phrase years old? Is someone 18 years old or years-old? In this post, I want to give you some advice on dealing with age in your writing. How should you write ages? When should you hyphenate? Correct: I am ten years old. Now that we know the correct verbs to be used, we should learn the guidelines for mentioning age in English speech or text. When the age mentioned is one, we use year old , while for any age more than one, we use years old.

In this case, the quantity of the age is the guide to whether to use year-old or years old. An adjective is a unit of grammar that attributes a noun. In the sentence, five-year-old is an adjective describing the noun boy, hence the preference of five year old instead of five years old.

When the article a is present in a sentence, or rather, the age presents itself as a noun, year old is used and not years old. An article, in grammar, comes before a noun and it automatically makes the noun singular, so the choice we make between year old and years old will also be singular, regardless of the quantity of the age. This case is in reference to a sentence in plural form.

If there is a noun present, the plural is only on the noun instead. Do you know what a hyphen is? Do you know how and when it is used? Cynthia Lakin on June 27, at pm. Thank you! Kay Kole Leary on June 12, at pm. Kaelyn Barron on June 14, at pm. RD on June 11, at pm. Ronnie on May 10, at pm. Which is the proper way to write this according to the rules? My seventeen year old self was wondering … My seventeen-year-old self was wondering… Reply. Kaelyn Barron on May 13, at pm.

Hi Ronnie, generally when you start a sentence with a number, it should be spelled out, and hyphenated like this: Thirteen-year-old girl Reply. Kerry Dalling on March 3, at pm. Kaelyn Barron on March 4, at am. Sam DeLeo on December 15, at pm. Kaelyn Barron on December 18, at am.

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