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Originally Posted by siddiqui88 View Post
Foot singular hai, 10 k sath kesay lag skta hai. You did not get it;wahan sirf hyphen lgana tha .punctuation mistake thi.
A ten-feet long snake made people run here and there. It was the sentence.Second hyphen was omitted.We had to insert that.
Where there a number is written in figurative form in a hyphenated adjective or compound word as you call it, the quantity is used in its singular form.

Example.

[Correct] Pakistan played a three-match series against England.
[Incorrect] Pakistan played a three-matches series against England.


Apply the same rule to the sentence in question.

[Correct] Ten-foot long snake.
[Incorrect] Ten-feet long snake.

I hope it helps.

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