A movie was released in late 90's or early 90's

[tufguy]

Is it correct to say "A movie was released in late 90's or early 90's"?

 

[GoesStation]

You can guess what I'm thinking. Next time, imagine that I've read your sentence and respond to what you think I'll say about it.

 

[tufguy]

You can guess what I'm thinking. Next time, imagine that I've read your sentence and respond to what you think I'll say about it.

I don't know.

 

[GoesStation]

Is it correct to say "A movie was released in the late 90's or early 90's"?

Adding the article makes the sentence grammatically possible, though in the early or late Nineties would be more natural and avoids repeating a noun. It's still a very odd sentence because hundreds of films were released in those years, not just one as it says.

 

[Rover_KE]

I'd write ... in the early or late 90s (without an apostrophe).

 

[emsr2d2]

Tufguy, it feels as if we have been telling you to put an article before a noun for a very long time. Perhaps we haven't been clear enough - we want you to put an article (or possessive pronoun if appropriate) before every noun, even if it's attached to an adjective. It doesn't matter how many adjectives come before the noun.

I can see cat. :cross:
I can see a cat. :tick:
I can see the cat. :tick:
I can see my cat. :tick:
I can see that cat. :tick:

I can see black cat. :cross:
I can see a black cat. :tick:
I can see the black cat. :tick:
I can see my black cat. :tick:
I can see that black cat. :tick:

I can see ugly thin black cat. :cross:
I can see an ugly thin black cat. :tick:
I can see the ugly thin black cat. :tick:
I can see my ugly thin black cat. :tick:
I can see that ugly thin black cat. :tick:

 

[jutfrank]

Another thing that tufguy still doesn't understand is the use of quotation marks.

The OP confuses the sentence that is doing the asking with the language that is being asked about. This is the thought that's going on in your mind, tufguy:

Is it correct to say that a movie was released in the late or early 90s?

There's no use for quotation marks there because you haven't referred to anything.

You should stop trying to embed language inside your questions. In the future, write the sentence you want to know about separately. Your OP should have been presented like this:

Is the following sentence correct?

The movie was released in late 90s.

 

[GoesStation]

You should stop trying to embed language inside your questions. In the future, write the sentence you want to know about separately. Your OP should have been presented like this:

Is the following sentence correct?

The movie was released in late 90s.

Tufguy, it didn't even occur to me to read your sentence the way jutfrank interpreted it -- but I'm pretty sure he understood you correctly. It's really important to use quotation marks correctly. Using them wrong will often make your messages nearly impossible to understand. If you follow jutfrank's advice and quit embedding language in your posts, they'll be much easier for us to read.