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bartholomew | 09:56 Mon 11th Sep 2006 | Phrases & Sayings
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Hi guys
My first language is not English and I have a little problem:
Which of the two is correct?
The station is a 5 minute walk from my home
or
The station is a 5 minutes walk from my home.

(I know that it is correct to say a 5 storey house, so the above confused me)
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The station is a 5 minute walk from my home.

would be the correct sentence.

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Reddog
As in a Five pound note , I suppose as well . But that gets confusing when saying " he gave me 5 pound " or " he gave me 5 pounds " ....Ermmm? Language eh?
Of course you could drop both the a and the s and say

the station is five minutes walk from my home which would be equally correct

Erm, what happened to punctuation? Ignore all the above. The following are both correct.

The station is a five-minute walk from my home.
The station is five minutes' walk from my home.

(In English, numbers 1-10 are written as words in text).
Quizmonkey is correct; note the hyphen as well as the apostrophe.
Your quite correct Quizmonkey, but I notice you did change the second sentence, which is not quite what Bartholomew was asking.

Reddog said it best. The first sentence is correct.
You are wrong Champagne : I corrected the sentence; I didn't 'change' it. . Difficult to entrust a grammar question to one who writes "Your quite correct"...

Once again, Reddog's sentence is NOT correct - read my previous post for reasons.
I think you'll find both are incorrect. The station is a good two hours' walk from ma home...
Way to go THE CORBYLOON!
Bart - English is quite keen on nouns in apposition. Do you do Latin ? In Latin, these would take the same case

five minute walk, and five storey building are both phrases and the nouns are in apposition.

five minutes' walk = walk of five minutes, and minutes' is a genitive plural, and remember the apostrophe at the end of the word

These are different constructions, same meaning.


what was your question - well you can put one of the other.

One of the English tests I took, asked us to distinguish 'long stem rose' and 'long stemmed rose.' Ans: first phrase doesnt exist. I thought this was quite difficult for non-English speakers.

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Horlicks anyone?

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