| English grammar help...... 12:39 - Nov 9 with 4630 views | dusseldorf_blue |
nothing could possibly go wrong asking here :-)
Which is correct;
a. Three pounds fifty
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b. Three pound fifty |  | | |  |
| English grammar help...... on 12:46 - Nov 9 with 4593 views | Illinoisblue |
3.50 |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 12:47 - Nov 9 with 4587 views | unbelievablue |
Fifty what?
Three pounds and fifty pence.
Edit - in seriousness I'd use the latter. [Post edited 9 Nov 2017 12:47]
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| English grammar help...... on 12:54 - Nov 9 with 4567 views | Guthrum |
In writing, "three pounds fifty" would be more correct. Spoken (including quoted and written dialogue), could be either. For money "£3.50" gets round the whole problem. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 12:56 - Nov 9 with 4573 views | MedwayTractor |
a. If you are referring to money, then the word pounds is a plural noun, therefore (b) cannot be correct.
b. If you mean that three (people, for example) are pounding (ie beating) fifty others, then the word pound is a verb, therefore (a) cannot be correct. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 12:59 - Nov 9 with 4548 views | blue_oyster |
Let's call it three quid. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:00 - Nov 9 with 4543 views | dusseldorf_blue |
| English grammar help...... on 12:56 - Nov 9 by MedwayTractor |
a. If you are referring to money, then the word pounds is a plural noun, therefore (b) cannot be correct.
b. If you mean that three (people, for example) are pounding (ie beating) fifty others, then the word pound is a verb, therefore (a) cannot be correct. |
I should have been clearer, I am indeed referring to money. | | | |
| English grammar help...... on 13:02 - Nov 9 with 4538 views | BrixtonBlue |
| English grammar help...... on 12:56 - Nov 9 by MedwayTractor |
a. If you are referring to money, then the word pounds is a plural noun, therefore (b) cannot be correct.
b. If you mean that three (people, for example) are pounding (ie beating) fifty others, then the word pound is a verb, therefore (a) cannot be correct. |
This. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:07 - Nov 9 with 4526 views | Meadowlark |
| English grammar help...... on 13:02 - Nov 9 by BrixtonBlue |
This. |
Unless.......b) refers to two entities named "three" and "fifty" in which case pounds could still be a verb and it would be correct. |  | | |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:10 - Nov 9 with 4507 views | MedwayTractor |
| English grammar help...... on 13:07 - Nov 9 by Meadowlark |
Unless.......b) refers to two entities named "three" and "fifty" in which case pounds could still be a verb and it would be correct. |
Unlikely, but nevertheless true. | |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:11 - Nov 9 with 4499 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| English grammar help...... on 13:07 - Nov 9 by Meadowlark |
Unless.......b) refers to two entities named "three" and "fifty" in which case pounds could still be a verb and it would be correct. |
I didn't realise they had become an item ! |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:16 - Nov 9 with 4487 views | BrixtonBlue |
| English grammar help...... on 13:07 - Nov 9 by Meadowlark |
Unless.......b) refers to two entities named "three" and "fifty" in which case pounds could still be a verb and it would be correct. |
Indeed. If, at a beauty pageant, contestant number 3 had sexual relations with contestant number 50, while wearing a strap-on, then you could say "three pounds fifty".
I wonder if we're overthinking this. | |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:17 - Nov 9 with 4486 views | Swansea_Blue |
Not using the plural noun seems to be a bit of a Suffolk thing. I always say '3 pound fifty p' or 'that's 12 foot high'. Get picked up on it all the time now I'm away from The Motherland. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:19 - Nov 9 with 4473 views | Blue_Order |
Tree fiddy. |  | | |
| English grammar help...... on 13:25 - Nov 9 with 4443 views | Fixed_It |
| English grammar help...... on 12:46 - Nov 9 by Illinoisblue |
3.50 |
Or about $3.60 given the current exchange rate!!! |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:27 - Nov 9 with 4440 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
If it is Mrs Three Pounds 50th birthday it would be "Mrs Three Pounds' 50 ", however if her surname is Pound it would be ......"Mrs Three Pound's 50". | |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:28 - Nov 9 with 4437 views | Magic31 |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:33 - Nov 9 with 4418 views | Binner |
Drei Pfund und fünfzig Pence. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 13:41 - Nov 9 with 4395 views | Alan_Handsome |
Rhetorical questions don't have question marks do they. |  |
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| English grammar help...... on 23:14 - Nov 9 with 4229 views | allezlesbleus |
| English grammar help...... on 13:16 - Nov 9 by BrixtonBlue |
Indeed. If, at a beauty pageant, contestant number 3 had sexual relations with contestant number 50, while wearing a strap-on, then you could say "three pounds fifty".
I wonder if we're overthinking this. |
Cheers BrixtonBlue.......had a good laugh at this one! |  | | |
| English grammar help...... on 23:17 - Nov 9 with 4226 views | The_Romford_Blue |
I sound a bit Danny dyer and would say it phonetically as 'Free pands fifty' |  |
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