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- When to use lives as a plural of life? - English Language Usage . . .
I am confused when talking about a general idea using "our life" when sometimes I feel like using "our lives" Please tell me the correct answer with appropriate explanation
- grammatical number - Is it everyones life or everyones lives . . .
Closed 7 years ago Which is correct: "everyone's life" or "everyone's lives"? I know that when the pronoun everyone is used as a subject, it takes singular verb agreement (as in the sentence "Everyone was there") But this by itself doesn't seem to show that the possessive form "everyone's" always acts like a singular possessive noun
- Using Life or Lives - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I searched on Google for "Personal and Professional Life" versus "Personal and Professional Lives" and the result for each is around 500,000 results I want to know if the following sentence is cor
- grammar - “other’s lives” vs. “others’ lives” - English Language . . .
I'm not sure which of the following is correct: having an impact on other’s lives having an impact on others’ lives I just can’t figure out how the apostrophe should be used
- What is the proper way to say possesive with person X and self?
Possible Duplicate: My wife and I #39;s seafood collaboration dinner I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" be
- Why is the plural form of life lives, while the plural form of . . .
I would say still life has undergone reification, which transforms it into a "standalone word" How the subcomponent elements work grammatically doesn't automatically affect how the composite form works Effectively it's a kind of neologism - not really "new" today, but a lot later than the original word life with its irregular plural Neologisms almost always have regular plural and verb forms
- I am so confused by, for example, People love their life or lives.
For example, People love their life or lives Girls always love their boyfriend or boyfriends People think of their college or colleges as an enjoyable place or enjoyable places My point is that every time I come across such things, I am not sure about whether an objective or a complement has to be plural, every time the subject is plural
- Which one is correct-life or lives? - English Language Usage . . .
A plural subject requires a plural object (lives), accordingly a singular subject requires a singular object (life) They can be used to mean one person or several people, however So, if your intention is to refer to an individual who lost his or her life whilst saving the lives of more than one others, then the second is correct and the first incorrect They is singular in this context, so
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