No. Each adjective takes its own (different) preposition. When you switch to the verbals, you have new problems. They don't work in parallel. You have respect for X. You can devote the next four hours to homework. You can devote yourself to

hi, In my reply, I want to say 2 things. 1: I misunderstand that MSc and BSc are adjective only. I don't know they can be nouns. thanks 2: someone told me that "I have a BSc and an MSc degrees in economics" "I have ( 2 things

Hi chattt, Welcome to English Forums. Thanks for joining us. Sorry your post slipped thru the cracks. Everything you say is correct. When you ask if the sentence is "true," do you mean "is it correct?" Yes, it's correct.

Hi, I would like to know the possible meanings of the words "splibby" and "splabibs" in the first stanza of Harryette Mullen's poem below. Elsewhere on-line I found out a short story with the following dialogue

Now if I look up "are," the dictionary tells me that it is the present plural of "be." But what I would expect is that it would tell me that it is the present plural of "am" or "is" because those are the

Hi CB, Thanks for pointing out the spelling thing! I think it comes from my native language, where we write " socio-economico " or " socio-economica " (depending on whether the adjective qualifies a masculine or feminine noun

Hello all, Here are my two bits. Holland is not quite a nickname. Industry and, especially, a brewer of beer in green bottles have long been promoting the misnomer "Holland" because it saves some time and ink. They even use it as an

I agree with khoff - it's almost a perjorative as a noun in the singular, and not very common as a plural either. Oddly, homosexual functions nicely as both a noun and adjective.

Mr. M -- do you ever hear anyone say "he is a gay"? I think it's very rarely used that way. I would say that the noun is mostly used in the plural -- "Do you think gays should be allowed to adopt children?" In fact, even in

The first. 'half' is an adjective here, which don't come in a plural form. Note, there is also the noun 'half' with a plural 'halves'.