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- students vs students - WordReference Forums
She has developed skills in identifying problems from constantly analyzing student’s students' language use Hi, what is the factor in this sentence that determines the plurality if she has taught numerous students for a long period but taught one student at a time?
- 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"
- the student students - WordReference Forums
Am I correct in thinking that "the student" here means "all students"? 1 The role of the student at university level varies greatly from country to country = 2 The role of (all) students at university level varies greatly from country to country and this one would be wrong: 3 The role of
- students name vs. students name - WordReference Forums
But grammatically, there is a difference Nurdug's "one of the students' name" = " {one of the students}' name" Your "one of the students' names" = "one of {the students' names} " In informal conversation, we might conceivably use nurdug's formulation, because the context would make it clear what we were talking about
- 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
- student’s students book books [apostrophe]
These are the students’ book These are the students’ books The apostrophe is positioned directly after the person or thing it relates to In this case the student or students, NOT the book or books
- 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
- 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
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