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Old Tuesday, January 26, 2016
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Originally Posted by hazelnut View Post
whats wrong with these two:
1.A ten-feet long snake made people run here and there.
2.Enclosed with this letter was a signed Affidavit and a carbon copy of his request to our main office.
A ten-foot long snake made people run here and there.
Enclosed with this letter were a signed affidavit and a carbon copy of his request to our main office.

in the first sentence ten-foot work as an adjective. adjectives have no plural. feet is a plural.
in the second sentence the letter was attached with two papers, an affidavit and a carbon copy of his request. Hence was should be replaced by were, the plural form
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