Lesson R&S 11
Going, going, gone!
I saw a picture in the Tuesday paper of the “unofficial world’s longest soft taco.” The 64-foot taco consisted of 30 pounds of ground beef, 6 pounds of grated cheese, and 120 tortillas. It took more than two hours to create and fewer than five minutes for 75 hungry teen-agers to devour.
gone saw picture
Tuesday 64-foot pounds
ground beef cheese took
two hungry teen-agers
“64-foot” is as adjective (describing “taco”), and all adjectives are singular in form.
When using numbers in a sentence, be consistent. Usually large numbers don’t have to be written unless it’s the first word in the sentence.