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- When to use “staffers” vs “staff”? - English Language Usage . . .
A staffer is one member of a staff Complexity comes into this picture in two ways If the term "staffers" meant to be inclusive of all members of a staff with no qualifications this would make the use of the two terms interchangeable since they each refer to the entire staff
- Staff are or staff is - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Which is correct in the following example? "The following staff are is (?) absent today: John Doe Jane Doe Bob Doe"
- grammatical number - Does staff take a plural verb? - English . . .
In British English, one can say "our staff do", because they use plural verbal agreement to emphasize when an entity is made up of a group of people, whether this entity itself is marked as plural or not This is also true of companies, bands, sports teams and other things which are commonly used in plural forms as well as singular forms The verbs are usually plural for one band or many bands
- grammatical number - What is the plural of staff? - English Language . . .
Staffs, when you're talking about the staff of Office A and the staff of Office B If you are talking about the kind of staff that Gandalf carries, the plural is staves, which is a word I've always liked
- Staff vs. staffs - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In an article I am reading from Bloomberg Businessweek, there is a use of quot;staffs quot; I thought staff is a collective noun and has no plural The full sentence reads Companies such as Uber
- In Are you staff? does staff need to be preceded with an article?
I disagree about formality To me "Are you staff" is definitely informal if to one person, though oddly I wouldn't find it informal if it was plural (addressed to more than one person) I think this is because in the plural it can be the ordinary non-count noun "staff"; but this has no singular (except "member of staff"), so in the singular "staff" has to have the different meaning of a quasi
- Employees vs Staff - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
This is an example of the very common phenomenon in English (and many other languages for that matter) of having two similar words coming from different origins Staff is a Germanic word that comes from middle English while employee came into English from French in the 1800s In general they can be used interchangeably, but they do have different subtleties Employee is a bit more formal and
- Plural of staff (stick) — staffs or staves? [closed]
For staff in the sense of "a body of employees", the plural is always staff; otherwise, both staffs and staves are acceptable, except in compounds, such as flagstaffs Staves is rare in North America except in the sense of "magic rod", or the musical notation tool; stave of a barrel or cask is a back-formation from staves, which is its plural
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