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- Equivalent of both when referring to three or more items?
Interesting, thanks! Unfortunately that doesn't seem to me to be usable either, as "There are several recommendations I have to further improve the sites — all three to improve their profit, decrease their cost and improve their usability " sounds like the "three" counts the recommendations –
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Is there a word analogous to dual for three or more options?
Three-way has connotations of some sort of physical object or direction, that I don't want either Triadic might work but it is of Greek origin, whereas dual and trinal are from Latin Paucal, is not specific to three, but is a good alternative to multiple
- “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)
- punctuation - What is the proper way of using triple dots and spaces . . .
The Three-Dot Method, which uses three ellipsis points to indicate all omissions of text from quoted extracts, "is appropriate for most general works and many scholarly ones," according to Chicago The Three-or-Four-Dot Method, Chicago says, "is appropriate for poetry and most scholarly works other than legal writings or textual commentary "
- Is there a proper name for the 3 asterisks that are used to suggest . . .
The three asterisks dividing the two prose sections are understood to divide the two sections into non-continuous temporal spaces I am interested in knowing if there is a specific name to describe symbolic or graphical markings that are meant to suggest temporal discontinuity
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