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For the sentence, "I am going on a two month cruise", would "two month" be considered an adjective since it means two months long. Also, is the correct wording "two months" or is "two month" also correct. I have heard it used both ways (months/month).

Doug from Atlanta
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    "Two-month" is best classified as a compound adjective with the singular noun "month" as the second component. – BillJ Dec 20 '20 at 13:36
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    @user405662 No, it's not a determiner but a compound adjective. Note that determiners are not normally modifiers; I recall pointing that out to you once before. – BillJ Dec 20 '20 at 13:38
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    Note: a compound adjective of size, length, etc, needs a hyphen: a six-metre pole, a five-hour journey, a ten-kilo sack, a two-month cruise. – Michael Harvey Dec 20 '20 at 13:40
  • Indeed! Sorry, it had slipped my mind. I will remove it. Thank you, @BillJ. – user405662 Dec 20 '20 at 13:40
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    It's a classical example of adjectivizing a noun. – Hot Licks Dec 20 '20 at 13:41
  • @BillJ - you showed a hyphen in your comment, but did not make it clear that it was needed. – – Michael Harvey Dec 20 '20 at 14:04
  • Yes, since it's a compound, it requires a hyphen, otherwise it would be two separate words in a syntactic construction. – BillJ Dec 20 '20 at 14:09
  • So, two-month cruise vs two-months cruise. Are both correct? is one more "proper"? – Doug from Atlanta Dec 20 '20 at 15:20
  • @DougfromAtlanta Hyphenated compound adjectives of measure use the singular form of the noun of measure, so a ten-pound weight, a two-foot pole, a six-month jail sentence, a hundred-year-old egg, and a two-month cruise. A two-months cruise is incorrect. – Michael Harvey Dec 20 '20 at 16:37

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