Thursday, August 27, 2015

grammatical number - "3-month retreat" or "3-months retreat"?




Which one is the correct (or more commonly used) form: "3-month retreat" or "3-months retreat"? How about "3-day" vs. "3-days" and "3-week" vs. "3-weeks" in the same context? (This is retreat as in meditation retreat and for U.S. English.)


Answer




In American English, you'd use the singular. So "3 day weekend" or "8 week course" or, yes, "3 month retreat".


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