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Hi I was looking at the Vocabulary and Idioms section of this forum and I think I came upon a post that asked if the following expression is OK and to that Marius answered I d say glorous times of exploration and adventure My position is that i would subscribe to that but if the context is set...

J Lewis Thank you for the explanation of soccer I knew it had been coined from association but didn t know it had been done by the British Words like clothesline are in dictionaries so it s understandable that the plural s is there A United Nations assembly is not in dictionaries and since...

Welkins2139 wrote Yoong Liat wrote I dived into a 5 feet deep swimming pool First it should be a 5 foot deep swimming pool Your sentence is that a singular form is used as a modifer before a noun in plural measuring expression Yes I agree But there is another way expression as well She dived a...

Yoong Liat wrote I dived into a 5 feet deep swimming pool First it should be a 5 foot deep swimming pool Your sentence is that a singular form is used as a modifer before a noun in plural measuring expression Yes I agree But there is another way expression as well She dived a five feet deep...

Mister Micawber wrote Unfortunately these Three Happiness Four Happiness Five Happiness sound very non native Though the es plural happinesses may be difficult for you to pronounce they are the only acceptable form that I am aware of I would like to know where you discovered the found custom of...

Re a various or various Hi Believer In the first example I would use various without the a The noun functions is in plural and therefore does not require an article a You could say can be performed using functions The adjective various can the be inserted before the noun can de perfomed using...

Cheerleader after cheerleader was practicing her move Though it does not have the same meaning it does have the same structure as A cheerleader was practicing her move after another cheerleader or After a cheerleader another cheerleader was practicing her move You can understand after cheerleader...

If I say it in singular does it refer clearly to a group of engineer as I would say flock in singular referring to a group of birds No engineer cannot be used like flock It has to be used like bird Use the plural engineers Are you by chance talking about a team of engineers That is also an...

Anonymous wrote Hi The answer to the question lies in the sentence itself One should always look at the object of preposition for ex in this sentence fifty percent of the students students is plural so it will be followed by plural verb which is have in this case Further if the objct of...

Hi Yes sorry in the case of students which is not a collective noun but refers to a group only plural verb is acceptable