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	Anonymous  #424378  Thu, 27 Sep 07 04:55 PM Please, should I write: - Band-Aid packages (or) Band-Aid's packages / Safety matches boxes (or) safety matches' boxes ?  And why ? - Teabags (or) tea bags ?  Thanks,  Shantra    Anonymous
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	Grammar Geek  #424403  Thu, 27 Sep 07 06:10 PM While inanimate objects CAN take the genitive (I don't want this table from the showroom floor. See? This table's leg is sratched.), usually they don't. A box of Band-Aids, the Band-Aids box. Several boxes of safety matches, the safety matches boxes.    Grammar Geek Joined on Tue, Jan 10 2006 Pennsylvania, USA Veteran Member (15,998) Barbara, who answers in American English.
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	Anonymous  #424406  Thu, 27 Sep 07 06:24 PM Thanks, Grammar Geek. But, concerning to the word tea .Can I write it in these two forms:  tea bag / teabag ? Shantra.    Anonymous
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	Yoong Liat  #424456  Thu, 27 Sep 07 07:58 PM  Anonymous wrote: Thanks, Grammar Geek. But, concerning to the word tea .Can I write it in these two forms:  tea bag / teabag ? Shantra. Both are fine.    Yoong Liat Joined on Mon, Sep 4 2006 Singapore Veteran Member (6,085) Yoong Liat
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	CalifJim  #424475  Thu, 27 Sep 07 08:42 PM Band-Aid packages, safety match boxes or just match boxes, tea bags CJ    CalifJim Joined on Mon, Aug 2 2004 California Veteran Member (17,568) "There are no facts, only interpretations" - Nietzsche
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	Anonymous  #424477  Thu, 27 Sep 07 08:47 PM Thanks, Yoong Liat ! Shantra.    Anonymous
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	Anonymous  #424479  Thu, 27 Sep 07 08:49 PM Thanks, Calif Jim. By the way is it wrong to write teabags (together)? Shantra.      Anonymous
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	Yoong Liat  #424602  Fri, 28 Sep 07 04:44 AM  Anonymous wrote: Thanks, Calif Jim. By the way is it wrong to write teabags (together)? Shantra.   I thought that I had already answered earlier that both are fine. Collins Cobuild English Dictionary for Advanced Learner states:: tea bag (also teabag).    Yoong Liat
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	Anonymous  #424609  Fri, 28 Sep 07 05:06 AM Ok. Thank you again, Yoong Liat !  Best wishes, Shantra.    Anonymous
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