今日就講吓一pair你可能成日都用但好多機會用錯嘅字。冇錯!就係大家小學已經開始學嘅報歲數, 總係好多Trap位😂
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大家最基本一定會識嘅就係”X years old”, 例如: “Dai Dai is 22 years old.”,呢度唔嘥時間討論啦,大家都用慣用熟。但到你大個、上到中學嘅時候你...
今日就講吓一pair你可能成日都用但好多機會用錯嘅字。冇錯!就係大家小學已經開始學嘅報歲數, 總係好多Trap位😂
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大家最基本一定會識嘅就係”X years old”, 例如: “Dai Dai is 22 years old.”,呢度唔嘥時間討論啦,大家都用慣用熟。但到你大個、上到中學嘅時候你可能就會見過”X-year-old”, 同樣地,佢都都係用嚟報歲數嘅形容詞。但係”X-year-old”真係可以有好多陷阱喺度。第一,用嘅時候一定要有hyphens。第二佢唔會有plural”-s”係year後邊,無論你係1歲定22歲,都係就咁”year”。第三,”X-year-old”一定要用喺一個noun前面,例如“Frog is 18-year-old but she speaks like an old lady.👵🏼”就係錯誤用法,我哋要講“Frog is an 18-year-old girl but she speaks like an old lady.👵🏼”。原因係因為係英文入面我哋有一種adjectives叫”attributive adjectives”,佢哋係必定要用喺noun嘅前面而唔可以好似一啲彈性放前或後都得嘅adjectives (an interesting book同the book is interesting都可以),一個類似嘅例子就係”indoor”, 你可以講 “an indoor swimming pool” 但唔可以講 “The swimming pool is indoor”.。
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呢排Frog好忙,大大感覺到佢冇認真地睇vocabno啲posts(眼淚往心裡流),所以希望佢會發現到個例子啦,發現唔到應該真係冇認真睇😂😂😂
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We always use the phrase “years old” to talk about our age and it is pretty common for us to use it. However, have you ever used it incorrectly? let’s talk about it in detail!
The most common way to say it is “X years old” and I think we are all experts of using it so let’s not spend any time on it. And then, you may have encountered the phrase “X-year-old” when you grow older. So what are the differences between “X years old” and “X-year-old” and do you use both of them correctly?
Yes, they function the same and both of them are adjectives. However, the first trap is that you ALWAYS need hyphens for “X-year-old”. Second trap- instead of saying “years”, we use “year”, no matter you are 1 or 22. The third trap is “X-year-old” always goes before a noun. You can’t say “Frog is 18-year-old but she speaks like an old lady.👵🏼” but you have to say “Frog is an 18-year-old girl but she speaks like an old lady.👵🏼”, which “18-year-old” modifies the noun “girl”. This is because in English we have something called attributive adjectives. These adjectives must be used before a noun to pre-modify them. A similar example would be “indoor”. We can say “an indoor swimming pool” but not “The swimming pool is indoor”.
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