Changes in the punctuation of ''to form the plural...

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Jackson6612

#327803 Sun, 11 Feb 07 04:38 PM

Please consider these sentences:

1: To form the plural of most words ending in ''f'' or ''fe,'' add an ''s.''

2: To form the plural of the most words ending in ''f'' or ''fe'', add an ''s''.

I found sentence 1 in a certain book. In sentence 2 I have made some changes to reflect my problems with sentence 1.

the most : I was told that the is always used in front of most.

''fe'', : Is this change correct?

''s''. : Full stop belongs to entire sentence not just to ''s'', therefore full stop shouldn't be included in inverted commas because these inverted commas explicitly belong to s.

Jackson6612

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Philip

#327823 Sun, 11 Feb 07 05:01 PM

Jackson6612 wrote:

Please consider these sentences:

1: To form the plural of most words ending in ''f'' or ''fe,'' add an ''s.''

2: To form the plural of the most words ending in ''f'' or ''fe'', add an ''s''.

I found sentence 1 in a certain book. In sentence 2 I have made some changes to reflect my problems with sentence 1.

the most : I was told that the is always used in front of most.

''fe'', : Is this change correct? Your change is correct.

''s''. : Full stop belongs to entire sentence not just to ''s'', therefore full stop shouldn't be included in inverted commas because these inverted commas explicitly belong to s. Your change is correct.

In this case, "most" is not a superlative (which takes "the"). Rather, it is a simple adjective meaning "the greater number". "Most people are happy; the most happy are those who have productive lives."

Philip

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Tanit

#327977 Sun, 11 Feb 07 10:54 PM

Jackson6612 wrote:

''fe'', : Is this change correct?
''s''. : Full stop belongs to entire sentence not just to ''s'', therefore full stop shouldn't be included in inverted commas because these inverted commas explicitly belong to s.