Grammar argh!

[catscar]

I can't figure this one out...

Example:
They drove away in two blue and one red truck. vs.
They drove away in two blue and one red trucks.

Comments

[wanderingbastet]

"They drove away in one red and two blue trucks." ;-)

In either case, it should be trucks, plural, because you're actually talking about three trucks. It sounds funny having the "one red" at the end, though. You could also say something like "They drove away in three trucks - two blue and one red."

[catscar]

Duh--thank you! I didn't think about reversing the order b/c I'm so used to keeping the author's bad wording on things so we don't "over-edit". But I think it's appropriate in this case.