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Adult children? - English Language Usage Stack Exchange "Adult children" comes from "adult children of alcoholics", but now has broader reference to adults who were abused emotionally, physically or sexually in childhood
possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . . Distinguish your audience in a prepositional phrase "I am an English teacher for adult learners" or "I am an English teacher for adults " If it is important you say teacher, this breaks up the information in a way that makes adults more proximal to teacher than English, and uses for to disambiguate the purpose
Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp a male that has had its sexual organs removed (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia describes an ox as: An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal
Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children Is it normal to refer to adult-age sons and daughters of someone as children? A native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and daughters is "أولاد" (awlaa
What is the term for young adult male female (aged 18 to 25)? When writing a book and referring to a female and male aged 18–25, what term would be most appropriate? Boy and girl seem too young, whereas man and woman seem too old Example sentence: A boy man
Can Mr, Mrs, etc. be used with a first name? This is very common and proper in the southern United States It is most often used by children speaking to adults they know well such as neighbors, friends' parents, more casual teachers, etc Usually the adult will signal his or her preference on how to be addressed Sometimes an adult (for example some teachers) will introduce themselves as Mr Ms last name instead, which is also fine and
Use of as per vs per - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Similarly, cops cop: instead of "a man" we find employed "an adult male individual" Tinhorns have to blow hard--such is the nature of tin--and so come to be known as blowhards *"per" is here used in the legal sense, i e that conveyed by "as stated by"