2023-07-04 10:52:26
The singular of the voice that alludes to a high-rise building with many floors is a skyscraperwith that, and not a skyscraper.
It is common to find phrases in the media such as “The footballer is going to live in his luxury apartment in a skyscraper with a car elevator”, “Messi in Miami is going to live in his luxury apartment in a skyscraper with a car elevator” or ” A woman cuts the security cable of two painters in a skyscraper in Thailand.
Skyscrapernot with that skyscraperis the form collected in the Dictionary of the Spanish language. This term, composed of the verb scratch and the noun Heavenshas a unique form for the singular and for the plural, so the number is marked with the determiners or adjectives that accompany it, as is the case with corkscrew.
According to this, the appropriate thing would have been to write “The footballer is going to live in his luxury apartment in a skyscraper with a car elevator”, “Messi in Miami is going to live in his luxury apartment in a skyscraper with a car elevator” and ” A woman cuts the security cable of two painters in a skyscraper in Thailand.
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