Showing posts with label compound nouns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label compound nouns. Show all posts

Monday, January 27, 2014

A ten-minute walk, ten minutes' walk - expressions with two nouns

Expressions with two nouns to talk about time, distance and other forms of measurement

Two basic patterns

In this post we take a look at using expressions of time, distance, money etc when we use a number with a noun, before another noun, for example:
ten + minute + walk
There are two basic patterns we can use: