Friday January 4, 2008
Use ‘and’ with ‘between’
I THINK the following sentence which appeared in the Metro section of The Star on Dec 24 is grammatically incorrect:
“The male matures between 25 to 30 months while the females takes between 20 to 24 months”.
The correct sentence should be:
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The correct conjunction after “between” is and and not to and the verb after females should be take and not takes.
I also wonder why the writer used “male” (singular) and “females” (plural) in the sentence. Wouldn’t it be better if the sentence was written:
“The males mature between 25 and 30 months while the females take between 20 and 24 months”.
At least, this is more consistent. – Hussaini Abdul Karim, Shah Alam
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