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Odd Place Noun Mentioning Type Size Quality Important

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You use o__ before a noun to indicate that you are not mentioning the type, size, or quality of something because it is not important .You use odd before a noun to indicate that you are not mentioning the type, size, or quality of something because it is not important .
...moving from place to place where she could find the odd bit of work.
He had various odd cleaning jobs around the place.
I knew that Alan liked the odd drink.
word odd
full-definition
adjective
If you describe someone or something as odd, you think that they are strange or unusual.
He'd always been odd, but not to this extent.
What an odd coincidence that he should have known your family.
Something odd began to happen.
...an oddly shaped hill.
His own boss was behaving rather oddly.
Perhaps it was that very oddness that attracted me to Glen's music.
You use odd before a noun to indicate that you are not mentioning the type, size, or quality of something because it is not important .
...moving from place to place where she could find the odd bit of work.
He had various odd cleaning jobs around the place.
I knew that Alan liked the odd drink.
Odd numbers, such as 3 and 17, are those which cannot be divided exactly by the number two.
The odd numbers are on the left as you walk up the street.
There's an odd number of candidates.
You say that two things are odd when they do not belong to the same set or pair.
I'm wearing odd socks today by the way.
adverb
You use odd after a number to indicate that it is only approximate .
How many pages was it, 500 odd?
He has now appeared in sixty odd films.
'How long have you lived here?'—'Twenty odd years.'
inflections odderoddestoddlyoddness
cefr-level B1

Tags: oxford5k::cefr-level:b1

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