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- What is the difference between aged and age?
The boy is of age 11 I'm of age 20 Now, when talking about age alone, age is a noun and [age 11] is a noun phrase In the case of your examples, [college aged students] and [college age students] represent two different cases of noun modification [College aged] is clearly an adjectival phrase [College age] is clearly a noun phrase
- at the age of vs at age - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The only difference is in register: they're both equally valid in professional writing Writing “at the age of five” is more formal, while “at age five” is more technical or direct Modern and effective language tends towards brevity, so the second wins in that sense
- Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate]
It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or
- What is the name of the era under King Charles?
The Second Elizabethan Age (The Atlantic, INews, TortoiseMedia etc ) not the Elizabethan Age which denotes the reign of Queen Elizabeth I As for Carolingian, historians did not select this term for the former two English kings named Charles Perhaps in order to distinguish them from the Frankish line of kings Carolingian is defined by M-W:
- Understanding as of, as at, and as from
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- grammaticality - From the age or ages of fifteen to twenty-one . . .
From the age of twenty to the age of forty, Bessemer lived the life of a journeyman inventor The law also imposed penalties on orbi, that is, married persons who had no children (qui liberos non habent, Gaius, ii 111) from the age of twenty-five to sixty in a man, and from the age of twenty to fifty in a woman
- 1 year old vs. 1 year of age - is one of them the correct form?
"1 year of age" is less likely than is "1 year old" to be interpreted as referring to something other than chronological age, and is likely to weather the evolution of language better In normal conversation, though, "1 year old" would be the typical expression (with the possible exception of someone like a lawyer, for whom the use of precise language is ingrained)
- terminology - Names for different age group - English Language Usage . . .
What are the age group names for each increment of a decade,starting from 0 and up? i e Octogenarian or teenager ?? Thanks
- in ages vs for ages - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
E g, I've known him for ages years a long time vs ungrammatical *I have seen him in ages weeks months years a coon's age donkey's years – John Lawler Commented Apr 15, 2013 at 20:22
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