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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- What does broken lives mean? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Broken Lives was written by Estelle Blackburn between 1992 and 1998 The book is about the false imprisonment of two people, John Button and Darryl Beamish who were both convicted for murders that were later proved to be committed by Eric Cooke the last man hanged in Western Australia in the Fremantle Gaol
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