Yoong Liat Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Which is the correct expression?

third-year memorial service


third-anniversary memorial service
Which is the correct expression?

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Yoong Liat Which is the correct expression? It depends on what the service actually is. I am going to guess you want "third-anniversary memorial service" for a commemoration of a death three years ago.

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Yoong LiatWhich is the correct expression?

It depends on what the service actually is. I am going to guess you want "third-anniversary memorial service" for a commemoration of a death three years ago. I am not a big fan of the tightly packed, multi-word, hyphen-heavy term, especially for something like this because it seems disrespectful to try to conserve