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Practise singular modifiers, plural nouns and number-unit forms.",1,"find_and_fix",[13,32,53,75,95,115,136,157],{"id":14,"sentenceTemplate":15,"displayOrder":16,"explanation":17,"exampleSentence":18,"blanks":19,"payload":20},"01a0e1ab-d7e6-72d7-b22e-5d3a6a65fe27","These shoes shops sell boots too.",0,"A noun modifier normally stays singular: shoe tells us what kind of shops they are. Make the main noun shops plural, without adding a plural or possessive ending to shoe.","These shoe shops sell boots too.",[],{"words":21,"correct":28,"wrongIndex":10,"corrections":29},[22,23,24,25,26,27],"These","shoes","shops","sell","boots","too.","shoe",[28,30,31],"shoe's","shoes'",{"id":33,"sentenceTemplate":34,"displayOrder":10,"explanation":35,"exampleSentence":36,"blanks":37,"payload":38},"01a0e1ab-d7e6-734b-b22e-5d3a6ae7bcd4","We took a two-hours journey through the mountains.","Before journey, the number and unit form a hyphenated modifier with singular hour: a two-hour journey. 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Compare an eight-month-old puppy: before the noun, the unit is singular and the modifier has hyphens.","Our new puppy is just eight months old.",[],{"words":144,"correct":153,"wrongIndex":139,"corrections":154},[145,146,147,148,149,150,151,152],"Our","new","puppy","is","just","eight","month","old.","months",[153,155,156],"month's","months'",{"id":158,"sentenceTemplate":159,"displayOrder":111,"explanation":160,"exampleSentence":161,"blanks":162,"payload":163},"01a0e1ab-d7e6-756b-b22e-5d3a6e0a6487","The two five-year-old child are playing outside.","Two and are require the irregular plural children. The age modifier five-year-old stays unchanged, with singular year, even before a plural noun. Possessive forms cannot replace the plural noun here.","The two five-year-old children are playing outside.",[],{"words":164,"correct":170,"wrongIndex":49,"corrections":171},[165,64,166,167,63,168,169],"The","five-year-old","child","playing","outside.","children",[170,172,173],"child's","children's","\u002Fuploads\u002Fimages\u002Fgpimg_80ab42f2-9c9e-40b7-a849-223f5431bd39_hero.webp?v=1790492530",{"title":176,"slug":177,"language":178,"level":179},"Compound Nouns and Noun Modifiers","compound-nouns-and-noun-modifiers","en","A2"]