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February 1, 2010
A friend sent me a power point presentation about a '700 years old village' in Iran. I looked at the description and tried to figure out why it sounded wrong. It should have read: a 700 year old village (year not years). Why?
Well the why is hard to figure out so I don't know how to explain it but I'll give you some examples so you can learn how to use 'year' or 'years'.
She is a ten year old girl. She has been with us for ten years. When she is twenty years old we will send her to a three hundred year old university in England.
It seems that when you are describing something, using the age as an adjective, it's singular. I'll do some investigating on this but I wanted to make you aware of this odd situation regarding 'year' and 'years'.
This is an odd blog entry but thanks for reading it!
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