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Hi, there
Could you help me, please?
1) Would you use "candidate" or "candidates" i "A tie in the polls between the two highest- and lowest-earning candidates/candidate "
2) Do you say "I have both American and Brazilian nationality or nationalities"? And "The tickets were sold out for both the US and THE UK show" or "The ticketed were sold out for both the US and UK shows"? Finally: "I bet on both (the) first- and second-place horses/horses"?
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1. Since you said "two", say "candidates"
OR, you could re-organize the grammar like this： “a tie in the polls between the highest-earning candidate and the lowest-earning one.”
2. "I have both American and Brazilian nationality or nationalities"?= both OK, but I prefer nationalities
"The tickets were sold out for both the US and THE UK show shows"=shows
"I bet on both (the) first-place and (the) second-place horses/horses"?=horses
In general, if there are 10 men and 10 hats, we say "the men put on their hatS"
"nationality" is usually noncount like water and sand, but here it makes more sense to treat it as countable.
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Candidates, nationalities, shows, horses. All plural :)
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