
28-Sep-2007, 17:23
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 | Harmless drudge | | Join Date: Jul 2006
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Re: 'two pairs' of something Quote:
Originally Posted by mr.curious is it wrong to say (as a grammar book says) that you have 2 pairs or 3, as the case in plural may be, of shoes or whatever? Is 'I have 3 pairs of shoes' wrong, grammmatically?
To me it seems perfectly ok. | Lose that grammar book! What else could you say? 'I have 6 shoes, 3 left and 3 right, with each of the 3 matching 1 of the other 3'?
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