Timeline for a joyous and restful three days -- a three days?
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| Mar 28, 2015 at 14:24 | comment | added | CJ Dennis | @ColleenV Adding period of certainly then requires a! So After a three days... must become After a period of three days.... It seems to be about whether you place the adjective(s) before or after the number. A noisy three boys entered the building Three noisy boys entered the building. The first example groups the boys together. They are a group of boys, not three separate boys. The same with the three days. They are three consecutive days, not 3 separate days over the course of a week, for example. So using a in this way seems to indicate that a grouping is taking place. | |
| Mar 28, 2015 at 1:01 | comment | added | F.E. | -1. This does not answer the question properly. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 16:56 | comment | added | ColleenV | It is OK though to say "After three days, I left the city." and not OK to say "After a three days, I left the city." Any thoughts of why describing those three days as "joyous and restful" causes us to add the article? My first thought was also that the sentence really meant "After a (joyous and restful) period of three days" but I wonder if there isn't more to it than that. | |
| Mar 27, 2015 at 15:49 | history | answered | Chenmunka | CC BY-SA 3.0 |