We have got eight to ten ratio men to women.

[tufguy]

We have got eight to ten ratio men to women. (I heard someone say it.)

Please check my sentence.

 

[emsr2d2]

You need the indefinite article and a preposition in your sentence. Can you work out where they should go?

 

[tufguy]

You need the indefinite article and a preposition in your sentence. Can you work out where they should go?

We have got an eight to the ten ratio men to the women.

 

[emsr2d2]

We have got an eight to the ten ratio men to the women.

OK, I told you that you needed an indefinite article and you added one. I have marked it above in green. That is correct.
Please show me where I told you that you needed to add any definite articles at all. Why did you add two?
I told you that you needed to add a preposition. You haven't added one.

I am going to make you work on this post, tufguy. We can't just keep handing out answers.

 

[tufguy]

OK, I told you that you needed an indefinite article and you added one. I have marked it above in green. That is correct.
Please show me where I told you that you needed to add any definite articles at all. Why did you add two?
I told you that you needed to add a preposition. You haven't added one.

I am going to make you work on this post, tufguy. We can't just keep handing out answers.

We have got an eight to ten ratio "from" or "with" men to women.

 

[GoesStation]

The Cambridge Dictionary has a useful sample sentence.

 

[tufguy]

The Cambridge Dictionary has a useful sample sentence.

We have got an eight to ten ratio of men to women.

 

[teechar]

an eight-to-ten ratio

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