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- “We three” vs “us three” - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The three of us will go to the Express mall ("us" is correct because it follows "of") You can find us there, having a good time (No need to repeat "three" because it has just been said) If you really want to repeat "three", then we would say The three of us will go to the Express mall (This makes "three" the subject of the sentence)
- The origin of two is company, three is a crowd
The proverb was first recorded in the mid-19th century, in the form “Two is company but three is none,” (W C Hazlitt, English Proverbs [1869]) but the sentiment it expresses is of earlier origin Variants of this proverb: two is company but three is none; two's a couple, but three's a crowd, four's too many, and fives's not allowed
- Word for three times a year. Is tri-quarterly a real word?
It is possible that whoever used the term wanted to convey the idea that the three issues are published in three-month intervals, i e quarterly (say, in March, June,and September), and that one quarter is then skipped (in this example, there is no issue in December) Tri-quarterly would, however, still be a very bad term to use for that purpose
- Oracle denies breach after hacker claims theft of 6 million data records
Oracle denies it was breached after a threat actor claimed to be selling 6 million data records allegedly stolen from the company's Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers
- If annual means one year, is there any word for two,three, four. . year
From WordWeb: Annual: Occurring or payable every year What is the corresponding single word for occurring every two year, three year, four year etc
- Why is it three score years and ten almost half the time and not . . .
The translators of the Authorized Version (KJV) must have decided to use the more poetic "three score years and ten" instead Meanwhile, the famous Gettysburg Address by Abraham Lincoln begins with: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
- Is there a proper term to describe ⅓ of a year (4 months)?
There is a difference between a duration period of three months as in "trimester" and an event occurring every 3 months as in "quarterly" In the same vein you would have a quadrimester or tri-annually(which means three times a year; not every 3 months) both being correct in the right context
- meaning - What does three by and five by mean? - English Language . . .
I am studying a foreign language, but few good textbooks are available I was able to find a public domain language training manual for air force pilots published on-line It teaches the target language using English On a page of vocabulary and phrases, it lists the English terms "three by" and "five by"
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