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- apostrophe - Individuals or individuals - English Language Usage . . .
This is the case in your sentence You could have written " additional interventions targeting needs of individuals will often be necessary " Because you have used the plural, you must, by the normal rules, place the apostrophe after the final "s" However, you could just as easily use "individual" in the singular, e g
- any every - Any individual or any individuals? - English Language . . .
5 You can say any of those constructs and they'll be grammatically correct Still, the emphasis changes When you say any individual you actually don't care about which one of the individuals you refer to But when you say any individuals you it doesn't matter for the speaker how many individuals, but what matters that number of those
- How do you greet multiple recipients in an e-mail?
And lastly, if an email is really to a single individual, but with a few more individuals copied in (such as a question to an individual developer, but where I want the email trail to be visible to the group), then I would use Dear Bob (Alice, Charlie, Dilbert) The last one is not a convention I have seen elsewhere, but I find it works for me
- A word that represents a group of people working to achieve a common . . .
league: An association of states, organizations, or individuals for common action; an alliance coterie: a small exclusive group of friends or people with common interests; clique association: a group of people who have joined together because they have similar interests or aims
- Who are vs who is - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
The construction in question here has an implicit plural subject The 'who is' construction isn't ungrammatical 'Who are' is another option, and when the purpose of the sentence is to convey a sense of community there is little doubt that the chairs are occupied by more than one person – Coty Johnathan Saxman
- single word requests - What do call individuals who express their . . .
especially if these individuals are in high position or the position that the people count on them, their word spreads out like a rumor, for example they tell the employees of the company “next month such a person will be the top manager of our company” or “the company will increase the salaries by 10 percent or layoff 10 percent because of financial problems” but he doesn’t tell
- Hypernym for individuals, organizations, possibly other things . . .
As long as we talk only about individuals organizations, a possible hypernym in this context is taxpayer This should work in most countries as both organizations (whether profit-making or not) and individuals with stake in them are required to be registered as taxpayers (even if they end up paying zero-tax) Wikipedia: Taxpayer
- grammar - Grammatical class of we when referring to a collective . . .
We will be okay [us as a couple], but regardless, we will be okay [as two individuals, regardless of the status of our relationship] Clearly both uses of 'we' are referring to both the first and second person, however there is a clear difference in meaning The same is apparent in this next (intentionally ambiguous) example of a company memo:
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