| Former-Teacher | Date: Friday, 10.12.2010, 09:29 | Message # 1 |
 Dean
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| Reading some of the blog posts on the site, I have come across this mistake:
'I think that it happens because people are christened in early ages.'
This sentence is incorrect. Instead of 'in early ages', the author ought to have used 'at an early age'.
Sometimes, word-combinations containing the semes of 'year' and 'age' cause problems. The following patterns below are standard:
- at an early/old age
- at the age of fifteen
- in the information age
- in the age of global disasters
- being five years old
- being five years of age
- a five-year-old girl
- in his teens/twenties/fifties...
- an aged person
- in the middle ages
- last year
- last century
- How old are you? What is your age?
- It's an age issue.
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