Tuesday, December 18, 2012

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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