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- Possessive: Beginning, beginners, beginners beginners class?
A Beginners Guide is a guide for beginners, and it could also be called a a Beginners' Guide, if you like apostrophes Call it a Beginner's Guide and it's a guide for one beginner: if there were several beginners then they would each need one of such a guide Now this class is for beginners
- a kid s meal - WordReference Forums
We had a somewhat similar discussion about beginners class not long ago - start at post #29 in Possessive - Woman’s college - Baby oil - Beginners class - singular plural possessives Sports car? Arms race? Clothes peg? Kids meal? Beginners class? Electricians pliers? Childrens club?
- Quod quae nocet, docet. - WordReference Forums
In the textbook The Latin Language for Beginners by Kochetkova and Soboleva (edited in Russia, 2007) I've seen a sentence Quae nocet, docet Is it a
- at in with different level - WordReference Forums
Informally: "John is better at English than Robert" Formally: "John is in grade B, while Robert is in grade C" I think that normally a class should consist of students with the same or similar level of skill or knowledge If there is a class with beginners and advanced students together, it would make teaching more difficult and time consuming
- Nurses Station - WordReference Forums
I suppose avoiding it by talking about a Nurse Station, or Nursing Station, is out of the question It's either Nurses' because it is a station used by lots of nurses, or it is Nurses, plural noun used attributively With the wisdom acquired from living through lots of threads on this topic, I'm still not sure I recommend: Possessive - doctor's bag, blacksmith's apron, policeman's helmet - or
- Members list or members list . . . ? | WordReference Forums
As it can be difficult to find the most relevant of the very many threads about possessive listed in the dictionary, I've done a bit of selecting: Possessive: Beginning, beginner's, beginners' beginners class? Possessive - Woman’s college - Baby oil - Beginners class - singular plural possessives Not open for further replies
- Workers union apostrophe use | WordReference Forums
Possessive: Beginning, beginner's, beginners' beginners class? farmer's farmers' farmers market If you choose to write workers' union, you are suggsting that the union is owned by the workers If you choose to write workers union, you telling us what kind of a union it is - workers is an attribute of union
- disagree with or about - WordReference Forums
I'm trying to think of how to explain to my ESL students (beginners) when we say " disagree with _____" " disagree about _________" I've been racking my brain trying to delineate the contexts in which we do, but I haven't come to any solid conclusions Can someone give me a nice systematic explanation with some help I can offer them? Thank you!
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