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標題: [English] - above / over [打印本頁]

作者: createch    時間: 2013-7-23 00:32     標題: [English] - above / over

There were above a hundred people in the crowd [wrong]
There were over a hundred people in the crowd [right]

Do not use "above" with numbers (unless referring to points on a scale)

He is over eighty years of age
I receive over twenty letters a day

but
Don't let the temperature get above thirty degrees




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