După o călătorie de 10 zile, timp în care au parcurs sute de kilometri, cei doi camarazi s-au simțit complet sleiți de puteri.
- After a ten days journey, during which they walked hundreds of kilometres, the two friends felt completely drained.
- After a ten-day journey, during which they walked hundreds of kilometres, the two friends felt completely drained.
- After a ten-day voyage, during which they walk hundreds of kilometres, the two friends felt completely drained.
- After a ten-day journey, during which they walked hundred of kilometres, the two friends felt completely drained.
Adjectivul compus din numeral și substantiv se scrie cu cratimă și cu substantivul la singular: a ten-day journey; hundreds of kilometres este la plural.… usually encounters … .
- A new trend / people's resistance
- Any new trend / peoples' resistance
- New trends / people's resistance
- A new trend / people who resist
A new trend usually encounters people's resistance: subiect la singular (verbul encounters) și genitivul people's (people este deja plural).… bus leaves … two hours.
- The / each
- - / every
- The / every
- - / each
Frecvența se exprimă cu every: every two hours; the bus este autobuzul cunoscut.It is on … of July that you have to hand in your thesis, not on … .
- the thirty-first / the thirtieth
- the thirty-one / the thirtieth
- the thirty-first / the thirty
- thirty-first / thirty
Datele se exprimă cu numerale ordinale articulate: on the thirty-first of July, not on the thirtieth.The two suspects were caught before they could … crimes.
- make other
- commit another
- do another
- commit other
Colocația este commit a crime; cu substantivul la plural se folosește other (other crimes), nu another.