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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"
- He is a student of at from Oxford. | WordReference Forums
There are so many places in Oxford for people to study, and their students are so keen to pass themselves off as going to the famous university, that I'd be suspicious He is a student from Oxford could well mean he was at some educational establishment in the city other than the university
- Pupil or student? - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
As a native BrE speaker I would use pupil for the younger children and student for older ones, particularly those in tertiary education (Colleges of higher education and University) I would never call a university student a pupil Older teenagers in 6th form Colleges would also be more likely to be called students However even some junior schools call their children students So there is a
- 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
- 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
- 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
- grammar - All students vs. All the students - English Language . . .
Answering only about "all students" That need not refer to all students in the world, only to all students in the domain intended by the speaker For example, the dean of a school may say "All students must fulfill these requirements " That is correct if he means all the students attending the school, not all students in the world So, the first example sentence in your post is not faulty
- prepositions - Im a student at from of in the XYZ department . . .
Question: If I'm pursuing studies at in the XYZ department, what is the correct preposition for the following sentence? I'm a student [at in from of] the XYZ department There are related
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