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#1 30-Oct-2020, 18:53"About forty years old" instead of "about forty"
Hello.
This is my sentence.
"He is about forty years old." Isn't "years old" unnecessary and wrong?
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#2 30-Oct-2020, 18:55Re: "About forty years old" instead of "about forty"
Not a professional teacher
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#3 30-Oct-2020, 19:02Re: "About forty years old" instead of "about forty"
It's fine either way.
I am not a teacher.
