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- What is the difference between aged and age?
The boy is of age 11 I'm of age 20 Now, when talking about age alone, age is a noun and [age 11] is a noun phrase In the case of your examples, [college aged students] and [college age students] represent two different cases of noun modification [College aged] is clearly an adjectival phrase [College age] is clearly a noun phrase
- grammar - Is it in an age or in ages? - English Language Usage . . .
Ages (plural), (also an age [singular]) (informal, especially British English): a very long time: I waited for ages It'll probably take ages to find a parking space Carlos left ages ago It's been an age since we've seen them OLD
- at the age of vs at age - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The only difference is in register: they're both equally valid in professional writing Writing “at the age of five” is more formal, while “at age five” is more technical or direct Modern and effective language tends towards brevity, so the second wins in that sense
- Understanding as of, as at, and as from
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- Which is it: 1½ years old or 1½ year old? [duplicate]
It would come much more naturally to a native speaker to say not "That man is a 50-year-old" [note also the hyphenation here] but "That is a 50-year-old man"; similarly, not "That kid is a one-and-a-half-year-old today" [a construction I have never heard anyone use when referring to half years as part of someone's age], but "That is a one-and-a-half-year-old kid" (omitting the 'today'), or
- Other expressions for coming of age - English Language Usage Stack . . .
Rumspringa Amish coming-of-age ritual, the rumspringa--the period of "running around" that begins for their youth at age sixteen During this time, Amish youth are allowed to live outside the bounds of their faith, experimenting with alcohol, premarital sex, revealing clothes, telephones, drugs, and wild parties
- adjectives - Should a comma be included when listing age? - English . . .
When listing age under someone's name for reference, does there need to be a comma between "age" and the number? My company is running an ad for a beauty supplement featuring our brand ambassador for the product The main image is a headshot of our ambassador with her name and her age listed below
- 1 year old vs. 1 year of age - is one of them the correct form?
"1 year of age" is less likely than is "1 year old" to be interpreted as referring to something other than chronological age, and is likely to weather the evolution of language better In normal conversation, though, "1 year old" would be the typical expression (with the possible exception of someone like a lawyer, for whom the use of precise language is ingrained)
- grammaticality - From the age or ages of fifteen to twenty-one . . .
From the age of twenty to the age of forty, Bessemer lived the life of a journeyman inventor The law also imposed penalties on orbi, that is, married persons who had no children (qui liberos non habent, Gaius, ii 111) from the age of twenty-five to sixty in a man, and from the age of twenty to fifty in a woman
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