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English Grammar and Usage Problems => Use and Misuse => Topic started by: Lyndon Tidlos Gabato on May 24, 2019, 01:09:38 AM
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Hello,
Which these two is grammatically correct - "a couple of times" or "a couple times"?
I was researching topics for my training and I read a sample sentence. The sentence is, "I like to go on a walk a couple times a week."
I am confused because that is an article about grammar and I thought it should be "a couple of times."
Please help me clarify this.
Thank you.
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The form "I like to go on a walk a couple of times a week" is the formal, grammatically correct form. The form that drops the prepositional "of" in "a couple of times, "I like to go on a walk a couple times a week" is the colloquial form used by native English speakers conversationally.