Hi Anon Part of your difficulty might be due to the fact that you have some typos/errors in your sentences. I'm at your dad ' s house. Are you Brittany's brother. You add an apostrophe and an S ( 's ) to the end of a noun to

Hi, Could we have used the singular verb "differs" in your sentence? I think you are using the word "usage" as an uncountable noun. What is the difference between yours and this? New and old equipment needs (need?) to be fixed.

Boys (boys') basketball tryouts will start tomorrow. Girls (girls') soccer tryouts have ended. are these posessive nouns as adjectives or just plural. If posessive, they should of course have the apostrophe, and if not, then

Hurries is used only in American football. It's a kind of rush play. Thanks! Would you please give me some more sentence examples with sigular noun hurry? I'd like them to be other than in *** hurrry , i.e. other than the ones similar to

What a challenge to find "hurry" as a countable, plural noun! Well, I did and it is a very special usage. It is a term in American football, where the defensive players force the team possessing the ball to hasten the play, resulting in

: 1) All sales staff are hereby being informed that .. 2) All sales staff is hereby being informed that .. Staff is a collective noun; in other words, it is grammatically singular but refers to many people. Usage varies. Both is and are are

. To vast a question, d_say-- and the sentences are already in English! DOWN: –adverb 1. from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder. 2. on or to the ground, floor, or

CB, Thank you for your input. At least I know I am not the only one with the PASSIVE approach toward this typeof sentences. <<<Football is a popular sport played in almost all As ia n and European countries . >>>- The sentence

football is a popular sport played almost in all Asain and European countries. There is no direct agent here but it's still a passive structure. That sentence is not in the passive voice. Football is a popular sport played in almost all As

The response from the United States of America to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II Message from Her Majesty the Queen. • Let us start with your header, the use of Majesty. Here is how it is derived: After the fall of Rome, Majesty was used to