By Marriage, Plurals

I've tried that and he agrees they are 2 activities. He just thinks the other sentence sounds better. And he has no problem letting me know when he's right, so it's my turn. Sharing is an important part of marriage.

Anonymous wrote:How do I use it correctly when there are two subjects? Example: Joe and Mary's marriage. OR Joe's and Mary's marriage. (if they are married to each other) Joe and Mary's backpacks. OR Joe's and Mary's backpacks. (each has his/her own backpack). Thanks. This is...

Hi, 1. Your act last night really hurt me, you should have known how to respect me. Without a context, it's hard to comment. However, 'your act' seems less natural than something like 'what you did'. 'How to respect me' seems a little bit odd, unless the context requires some special kind of...

Hi, “The family soon settled into a relaxing routine. Each morning Stevenson (1) would get up / used to get up early and take them out for long walks (2) over / on (?) the hills.” Would you please tell me : 1) If it’s true that the difference between “used to” and “would” is that “used to”...

A line is an expression, speech or monologue that is designed to unfairly (through manipulation of feelings or outright mendacity, for instance) influence the listener toward some goal concocted by the speaker-- such as sex, power, respect, etc. Many young men have lines which they hope...

Mmmmmmmh.... Let me try to play this then...The GOOD (the best I can at least)... By using the plural when referring to love relationship(s) then you imply you're indeed planning on having several of them... So you're actually not REALLY thinking of being as serious as you say you are......

Hi, Mr.P, I had to run and I didn't quote the examples Garner used. He says, "In this construction, a singular verb is required. But writers frequently get it wrong—e.g.: "Only one in five believe the Clintons did anything wrong in Whitewater." "The Polls," Dayton Daily News, 13 Mar....

The assignment was about the different views on marriage we can find in The importance of being earnest. This is the corrected version (done by me) but the original one was written by a student of mine who is at university studying English translation. I thought if I say "we find characters...

Not bad at all! Let's do the real mistakes first: In sentence 3, you have "much ... controls". You need "many ... controls". "much" goes with a singular noun; "many" with a plural. In sentence 1, "homosexual tendencies" is what you need to write. A singular noun ("tendency") can't occur...