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- grammar - Difference between students vs students - English Language . . .
I'm having difficulty understanding when to use students' vs students I know you use students' when you're talking about more than one student For example: "The students' homeworks were marked"
- subject verb agreement - It were students . . . or It was students . . .
Note that the original sentence with out being a cleft sentence is the students wanted the teacher to declare, this may cause the confusion on using were or was, but when it comes to a cleft, you use was
- singular vs plural - Which is correct - all the people are students . . .
All is usually used with plural verb forms, especially when we say "all the X" or "all of the X" where X is plural "The people" is plural, because there are more than one, so "all of the people" is likewise plural, and the correct answer is A, All of the people are students B is not correct because "a student" is singular, but "all of the people" is plural "All of the people are a student
- prepositions - Is it a student in or of your class? - English . . .
Someone is only a "student of" a broad field of study, not an individual class If I say, I am a student of philosophy Then that means that I am generally interested in philosophy It doesn't necessarily even mean that I'm pursing a formal degree in philosophy, just that it is one of my personal interests (Aside: If I wanted to say that I was formally studying philosophy, especially as a
- We met the students whom you taught English. Versus We met the . . .
I am taking classes to improve my English The instructor and I were going through 'Relative Clauses' this morning, when this particular sentence came up We met the students who you taught Englis
- phrase choice - Us Students Or We Students - English Language . . .
We students who had not studied were at a disadvantage Or Us students who had not studied were at a disadvantage
- articles - Is there any difference between all students, all the . . .
1 "All the students" and "all of the students" mean the same thing regardless of context When you qualify all three with "in the school", they become interchangeable But without that qualifier, "all students" would refer to all students everywhere, and the other two would refer to some previously specified group of students
- Are these called columns of students or vertical rows of students . . .
Closed 1 year ago Are these called columns of students or vertical rows of students? If they are called neither, what are they called then in AmE? I have circled the vertical rows of students in blue to know the thing whose name I am looking for
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