- Help with understanding Apostrophe for workers or workers
2 is correct The democracy is that of multiple workers, so workers is plural Because of that, the apostrophe applies to the plural form and is therefore after the s If the democracy was the "property" of a single worker, then it would be that worker's democracy
- single word requests - Co-worker equivalent for volunteer . . .
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- Word to call a person that works in a store
specialty workers such as butchers, bakers, etc So there isn't a single word that would cover all persons working in a store I suppose salesperson might be the most common position
- Employees vs Staff - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In your example, both sentences work just fine The second may seem a bit unnatural because employee is emphasizing that the workers are getting paid, but this is irrelevant in the context of your sentence (just a theory) For somebody learning English as a second language, both should be acceptable in my opinion
- What is the difference between employee and personnel?
A basic difference is that personnel refers to many people and employee refers to one individual Oftentimes, in a company, there will be a "personnel department" that handles employment, benefits, hiring, and other tasks related to the employees of the company
- terminology - Whats the term for government worker? - English . . .
hi DJ I mean in the typical USA context where teachers indeed work for "the government" (the local school district, usually funded by "council" taxes and some state and federal taxes) - they are 100% government workers; the US Postal Service is simply establishment of the executive branch of the Government of the United States
- grammaticality - Work (noun) is plural or singular? - English . . .
@jimsung I find my issue relevant enough to this question not to start a duplicate The issue is that based on the dictionary, your response "Work can be either singular or plural, and in your context, either is possible" seems unconvincing to me
- What is another term for co-worker but for someone ranked higher?
What is a term for a director of a program (or anyone ranked higher) that I don't directly report to, but I've worked with on various committees?
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