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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
- 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
- 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
- grammatical number - Many lost their life or Many lost their lives . . .
Many individuals lost their individual life or Many individuals list their individual lives Each person has one life right?
- Who lives there? vs Who live there? - English Language Usage . . .
For instance: "Who lives there?" - This sentence is asking about the entire group (of residents of the residence) as a collective unit Hence, the verb "to live" adopts the third-person singular form ("lives") In contrast: "Which people live there?" - This sentence is asking about the individual members of the group separately from each other
- 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
- 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
- In Vs On Vs At (when talking about streets) [duplicate]
In British English, the name of the street without any further precision is preceded by in when you’re talking about where someone lives: he lives in Oxford Street The precise address is preceded by at: he lives at 128 Oxford Street On may occasionally be found to say where a building is located: Ikea have a big new store on Oxford Street
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