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peter123

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Hi there,
Could you proofread the following sentence?
The language and mathematics abilities of students nowadays are worse than those of their counterparts a decades ago.

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pete
 

Buddhaheart

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Do you think you really need the definite article ‘The’ there? Why ‘decades’& not ‘decade’?
 
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