Believer  +  252195 Fri, 04 Aug 06 07:26 AM 1. What is the difference for the following two sets of sentences? His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. His kingdom is the one that will never be destroyed. Can I move to the next picture? Can I move to next picture?   2. Are the underlined words always have to be in singular? They got a headache/runny nose/stomachache. 3. Why would a person opt for the word "past" when the word "last" would be good if not better? Share your thought on the past week's passages.  Believer Joined on Mon, Jan 2 2006 Contributing Member 1,969

	Maple  +  252208 Fri, 04 Aug 06 07:55 AM  Believer wrote: 1. What is the difference for the following two sets of sentences? His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. His kingdom is the one that will never be destroyed. Can I move to the next picture? Can I move to next picture?   I'd use His kingdom is the one that will never be destroyed. Can I move to the next picture?  Believer wrote: 2. Are the underlined words always have to be in singular? They got a headache/runny nose/stomachache. Yuk, I think so.  Believer wrote: 3. Why would a person opt for the word "past" when the word "last" would be good if not better? Share your thought on the past week's passages.  That's difficult to answer. I have no idea. But I prefer to say "Share your thought on last week's passages. " I'll wait to see others' input Maple Joined on Tue, Jul 11 2006 An ESL student in China Contributing Member 1,110

	Nef  +  252212 Fri, 04 Aug 06 08:13 AM 1. What is the difference for the following two sets of sentences? His kingdom is one that will never be destroyed. His kingdom is the one that will never be destroyed. The first sentence means that this kingdom, and possibly some other kingdoms, will never be destroyed.  There is no claim that all other kingdoms will be destroyed. The second sentence means that this is the only kingdom that will never be destroyed. Nef Joined on Sun, Jan 1 2006 California, USA Regular Member 638

	Likeguslee  +  252223 Fri, 04 Aug 06 08:43 AM Can I move to the next picture? Can I move to next picture?   The difference: The next picture is the next one in the sequence. Next picture could be any picture that comes next Likeguslee Joined on Mon, Jun 5 2006 USA Full Member 330

	nona the brit  +  252245 Fri, 04 Aug 06 09:53 AM 1. As Nef explained. 2. You need Can I move to the next picture? You are talking about a specific picture. Can I see the red picture? Can I dust the old picture? Can I look at the next picture? 2. Are the underlined words always have to be in singular? Do the underlined words always have to be in singular? No. You can say 'they have got headaches/runny noses/stomach aches'.  I believe American English would say 'they have headaches/runny noses/stomach aches. 3. Why would a person opt for the word "past" when the word "last" would be good if not better? Share your thought on the past week's passages To me, last weeks passage's would mean the things we discussed on a specific day last week. I would assume this was a class that happened once a week. The passages from one week ago. The past week's passages would mean that they had been looking at passages over the whole of the week, with a class more than once. The passages studied during the week leading to today. You could also use 'the last' to give this meaning. However you couldn't replace ' discuss last week's' with 'discuss past week's'. nona the brit Joined on Wed, Sep 22 2004 England Veteran Member 11,713 The name says it all. American English, Images

	Believer  +  252281 Fri, 04 Aug 06 12:31 PM Thank you. As to your second explanation, which I believe is said as the kingdom mentioned is the only kingdom that will never be destroyed. OK, is that from a univerally accepted factual point of view or is that from the writer's perception of the fact as he sees as? I think it is the latter.  Believer

	nona the brit  +  252307 Fri, 04 Aug 06 02:17 PM Well it is impossible to say for a fact, isn't it, no-one can fortell the future. nona the brit

	Maple  +  252334 Fri, 04 Aug 06 03:45 PM What a lesson I have learned from this thread! I'm taught to recite "have got a headache/stomachache" as phrases, and never thought the plurals of these words also apply. And the google results reveal "stomachaches" and "headaches" are far more often used than "a stomachache" & "a headache"  Thanks all of you! Maple Maple Plurals

	nona the brit  +  252349 Fri, 04 Aug 06 05:06 PM The plural can be used if you are talking about more than one person with a headache/stomachache or if you suffer from them often you can say something like 'I keep getting headaches' or 'I get a lot of headaches'. nona the brit Plurals