Phrase: It's a 120 years year-old building

English as a Second Language English Vocabulary, Grammar and Idioms
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Please read: It’s [color=red]a [color=green]120 year-old [color=red]building.

Please tell me corect or not correct.

a. It’s a one hundred and twenty year-old building.
b. It’s a a hundred and twenty year-old building.
c. It’s a hundred and twenty year-old building.
d. It’s one hundred and twenty year-old building.

It is sure that (a) and (b) are not correct :smiley: . If only © and (d) are correct, how to distinguish btw the article “a” for building and the “a” of “120”?

Thanks
K

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Hi,

I have another question for you. These questions you ask with multiple choice answers - are they made by you personally or are they part of an exercise you are doing?

Alan

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Hi Alan,

No, they aren’t homework.

Khanh

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Hi Khanh,

Thank you for your very full and honest answer. It was good to hear your reasons and to learn some more about you. Please don’t think that your questions are silly. Any question is worth asking and we do our best to give an answer. I certainly would appreciate it if, as you say, you’ll give some background on your questions so that in context we can give you a more satisfactory answer. And another point is that the other users online can get some idea of the nature of the question

Best wishes

Alan

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Hi,

If you are free, please answer me the question.

Khanh

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Hi,

It’s a one hundred and twenty year old building

It’s a hundred and twenty year old building

Would be my choices.

Alan

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[size=134]It’s a 120[color=red]-year-old building.[/size]
This is correct.