Do you hyphenate a year and a half?
If it’s used as an adjective, it has hyphens. otherwise, it does not.
How do you say 1.5 years?
Member Emeritus. Yes. And if you speak it, you’d say “one and a half years”, not “one and a half year”. (But it could also be said as “a year and a half”.)
How do you write a one and a half year old?
Alternatively, “He’s one and a half” would be understood perfectly (presumably one would already know the child’s gender). I think the full written form is preferable, but there’s no one to stop you from writing the number in digits: “He’s 1½ years old” is also fine.
Is it two and half or two and a half?
Typically, we say two and a half years. But if someone asks you how old a child is, “years” is usually omitted: “He’s two and a half.” It’s not really a question of grammaticality; one way is just much more common than the others.
Is it one and half or one and a half?
It is “one and a half hours” because you have more than one hour ( one hour plus half an hour ) hence implying that it is plural and not just a single hour. both “one” and “a half” are describing the noun “hour”, so two.
How do you write two and a half year old?
I recommend first that you use either “three-and-a-half-year-old” or “3½-year-old,” and that you not mix spelled-out numbers and numerical numbers as in “3-and-a-half-year-old” and “three-and-½-year-old.”
Is it 1+ year or 1+ years?
Using a possessive form with a plural number we would write “two years’ experience”, so if that is to be used, then one plus years’ experience would be correct. As would using of with no possessive, as suggested.
How do you write three and a half years?
Use numerals — “3½ years” — this is how it’s normally done in journalism. If your work isn’t journalistic or just a book, the general rule of thumb is to spell out (as you did with “three and a half years”).
How do you say two and a half years?
I agree that “two and a half years” is the most common way to say it in English. But “two years and a half” is also very good English, perhaps a trifle on the literary side. You could also say “two years, and half of another”.
Should you say half or one half?
That’s right, there is no difference. It’s formal language to say “one half” instead of “a half” or simply “half”.
How do you write one and a half months?
One and a half is more than one, so the noun (“month”) must be plural (“months”). It is better not to split numbers: “one and a half months”, not “one month and a half”.
Is it two and a half or two and half?
✗Don’t say: one and half | two and half• The phrases one and a half, two and a half etc are followed by a plural noun: We were there for one and a half days. ✗Don’t say: We were there for one and a half day.
How do you write five and a half years?
What is the correct way to write a fractional number in a formal…
- five-and-a-half years.
- 5-1/2 years.
- 5.5 years.
Is it 2 years or 2 year?
two year’s refers to the end-point of something. Side note, this is more properly written as two years’, since the “two” means that “years” needs to be plural. This one isn’t normally used with a noun like “course”; instead, it would much more common to hear it with “time”.
Do you hyphenate 2 year old?
If you are using “year old” as an adjective, then you need to put a hyphen between the words. For example, you would write “the two-year-old child.” “Two-year-old” is an adjective that describes the child.
Is it two and a half years or two and a half years?