- Twenty hundred weight make one ton.
- Twenty hundred weights make one ton.
Please correct the above.
Thanks.
To me, it should be: Twenty hundred-weights makes one ton.
Anglophile/Beeesneees,
Please comment on my sentences whether they are correct or not.
Thanks.
You will discern from my answer that they aren’t.
(However, you may also hear from the native users)
Beeesneees,
I want to hear your comments on my sentences.
Long before in one web site I have seen the sentence - ‘Twenty hundred weight make one ton.’
Is it not correct?
Thanks.
I have suggested you use a dictionary to help yourself become independent more than once.
I suggest you do the same in this instance.
Take particular note of what they say next to i[/i]
I’d like to know what you make of it.
Beeesneees,
Oxford says, “There are 20 hundredweight in a ton.”
Can I say “Twenty hundredweight make one ton.”?
Thanks.
Perhaps you should look at these too:
oxforddictionaries.com/defin … dredweight
collinsdictionary.com/dictio … dredweight
They make it clearer what is acceptable in the plural.
Beeesneees,
I can’t get the correct answer from those references.
But I can guess:
‘Twenty hundredweights make one ton.’
Is the above correct?
Thanks.
Did you look for the reference to i[/i] as suggested earlier?
If you did you would have seen these:
[i](plural same or hundredweights)
(plural) -weights, -weight[/i]
I suggest you spend more time looking at dictionaries and developing the skill of using them.
In this instance, both dictionary pages indicate that ‘hundredweight’ and ‘hundredweights’ are both correct as a plural form. (In the UK, ‘hundredweight’ tends to be the norm. In the US, it appears that ‘hundredweights’ is usual.)
Are you confused about ‘make’ and ‘makes’? If so, ‘makes’ is acceptable since we take the whole as one unit/block of weight.