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a measurement (use feet or foot)

How many feet in a mile?
I'm 20 foot tall
That's a 300 foot building
That building is 300 feet high

distance (use feet only)

That's 300 feet away.
Over there, 200 feet from here.
The plane is at 30,000 feet.
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Salam Sibga,

I have checked that

I'm 20 foot tall
That's a 300 foot building

These two sentences are slang, so in general speaking that is correcrt, but
grammatically both are incorrect.

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distance is always measured in plural form.... its a grammatical rule
therefore its FEET
feel free to check other grammatical common mistakes
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