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Per the Macmillan dictionary, aged is an adjective: aged, adj. : someone who is aged 18, 35, 70, etc. is 18, 35, 70, etc. years old. A woman aged 50 has given birth to twins. Men aged between 18 and 35 are most at risk from violent crime. In the second case, a group of students that are of college age are college age (not college aged) students.
1 juin 2020 · Jun 1, 2020 at 9:27. 1. "At what age" is an adverbial phrase comprised of {preposition at + noun phrase what age}. We can replace it with the adverb "When". Adverbs and adverbial phrases are commonly used to start sentences. – Greybeard. Jun 1, 2020 at 9:36. 2.
20 mai 2018 · From the age of twenty to the age of forty, Bessemer lived the life of a journeyman inventor. The law also imposed penalties on orbi, that is, married persons who had no children (qui liberos non habent, Gaius, ii.111) from the age of twenty-five to sixty in a man, and from the age of twenty to fifty in a woman.
8 mars 2017 · "1 year of age" is less likely than is "1 year old" to be interpreted as referring to something other than chronological age, and is likely to weather the evolution of language better. In normal conversation, though, "1 year old" would be the typical expression (with the possible exception of someone like a lawyer, for whom the use of precise language is ingrained).
20 mars 2016 · However, here "age 5", "age 6" and "age 7" are each treated as a noun phrase, with the aggregation written as "ages 5 to 7". The sentence you quote (mis)uses "ages" as an adjective, not a noun or a noun phrase, so the proper term should be aged.
3. By the age: At the time of reaching the age he was already performing this function. At the age: He began in the same year as reaching the age. Neither implies stopping in any manner. That would be up until the age, meaning he was performing the function and stopped upon reaching that age. Share.
21 août 2017 · 0. I believe grow by age is the action of having one's age increase; as in the number of days/months/days is increasing. Meanwhile grow with age is having some other characteristic (presumably size/maturity) increase as the age progresses. Cheers.
15 avr. 2013 · both are correct to say and will convey the same meaning. They will convey the same meaning in a negative sentence; but in ages and other durational phrases with in (in weeks/months/years/a coon's age/donkey's years) are Negative Polarity Items and can't occur outside the scope of a negative trigger. E.g, I've known him for ages/years/a long ...
21 sept. 2016 · 1. You would not normally say either "higher/lower age" or "older/younger age" - you'd simply say "older" or "younger", or "the same age". – Max Williams. Sep 21, 2016 at 8:44. 2. As noted, older is preferred, but if you want a phrase that includes age, then we usually use greater age. – JonLarby.
On the other hand 'old age' can be used variously: e.g. 'She has retained her health into old age', or 'Living to a very old age is a mixed blessing', or 'Ninety-nine is an old age by any reckoning'. Curiously 'middle-age' which tends, more often than not, to be hyphenated, never seems to take an article. e.g. 'The onset of middle-age can be a ...
