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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?
- grammatical number - The plural form of: Ones life work - English . . .
Searching Google Books for their lives' work but screens out most of the "false positives" But it only claims about 308 hits, compared to about 10,100 for their life's work but (where virtually none are unwanted accidental collocations)
- 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
- I am so confused by, for example, People love their life or lives.
For example, People love their life or lives Girls always love their boyfriend or boyfriends People think of their college or colleges as an enjoyable place or enjoyable places My point is that every time I come across such things, I am not sure about whether an objective or a complement has to be plural, every time the subject is plural
- word choice - the lives of children or the childrens lives? - English . . .
The lives of children is generic, talking about this in the abstract The children's lives refers to specific children; which children should be clear from context
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