- hyphenation - Three-times vs three times - English Language Usage . . .
Three times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 vs Three-times as many cases of measles were reported in the United States in 2014 Is there a difference betwee
- 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
- “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)
- word choice - Three quarters vs. three fourths - English Language . . .
the cast and crew returned to Los Angeles with three-fourths of the film finished; an aggregate area of more than three-fourths inch in diameter; the ratio of 3:4 is the diatessaron or fourth, producing an octave lute that is three-fourths the length of the descant, which in turn is three-fourths the length of the tenor
- 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"
- Cisco warns of ISE and CCP flaws with public exploit code
The most severe of the three is a critical static credential vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-20286, found by GMO Cybersecurity's Kentaro Kawane in Cisco ISE This identity-based policy
- What is the correct way to write a range of dollar figures?
When in doubt, consult the style guide of the organization for which you are writing When several numbers appear in the same passage, many writers choose consistence rather than strict adherence to the rule When one number immediately follows another, spell out one and use figures for the other: three 100-meter events, 25 four-poster beds
- word choice - “Time” versus “Times”: When is time plural? - English . . .
He punched me three times In the first sentence time refers to the amount of seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, years, decades, centuries, millennia and so on This noun is uncountable In example (2) times refers to the number of occurrences The number of instances that something happened
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