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possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . . Distinguish your audience in a prepositional phrase "I am an English teacher for adult learners" or "I am an English teacher for adults " If it is important you say teacher, this breaks up the information in a way that makes adults more proximal to teacher than English, and uses for to disambiguate the purpose
Can Mr, Mrs, etc. be used with a first name? [First Name] is especially common in the U S South and as a way for children to address adults who aren't related to them But I don't think that anyone has pointed out that Mister [First Name] , Miss [First Name] , etc , were a standard way for African American slaves (and later, servants) in the South to address their masters (and later
single word requests - English Language Usage Stack Exchange What about prime adult or early adult?From the Wikipedia entry for 'young adult': A young prime adult, according to Erik Erikson's stages of human development, is generally a person between the age of 20 - 40, whereas an adolescent is a person between the age of 13 - 19,1[2] although definitions and opinions vary
Since when did kidnapping come to include adults too? Kidnap appears to be a back-formation from kidnapper () This chart shows the relative use of “man was kidnapped”, “woman was kidnapped”, and “child was kidnapped”; there is a mysterious spike around 1850–1870 that may explain the subsequent increase in popularity of applying kidnap to adults, but I’m loath to draw any conclusions
Specific word for grown-up children? [duplicate] There is no word I use kids when speaking to adults about my grown children, because it has less the connotation of youth (I think), but I have run into that problem myself I sometimes feel the need to say, my children, now adults or my married children when I want to avoid kids –
Is there a synonym analogue to he said, she said that allows a . . . Both of these situations are different on at least one point of a "he said, she said" situation in that all (adults) involved appreciate the other side at least somewhat, and that the two accounts can be connected in a coherent understanding
Whats a good word to describe adults who are not yet parents? As a parent, I have often thought that adults who don't have children must be the LUCKIEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, because they never have to think of anyone's happiness but their own And they aren't in for 100K$ per child for college expenses –