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No. A 'thank you' is a colloquial compound noun, like lounge room or room heater, and the 's' in 'thank yous' signifies the plural, so no apostrophe is used.Apostrophes are used to express possession e.g. Bob's car; or to indicate some letters have been omitted in a...

Hi,In the phrase 'college holidays', the word 'college' is a noun used as an adjective to modify the plural word 'holidays'.This is often done, as you probably know. eg ' school uniforms', ' car keys'.Clive

Hi, I have not-so-easy times using the word 'types' in front of a countable noun and an uncountable noun. There are two types of face: optimistic and pessimistic. -- I have difficulty with using the word 'types' with a countable noun. I think 'face' is used...

Hi again, Kindly answer my questions 1. The annual earnings have been pegged at $3.86 billion. In the above sentence we are speaking about a annual so should it be the annual earnings has been pegged.. No, earnings is treated as a plural word. But then The annual is singular and verb needs...

Hi, I am an attorney working for the government. The duties of my job position mostly involve considering legal requests called "petitions." My job title is "Petitions Attorney." I am unclear as to when the first letters in "Petitions Attorney" should be capitalized. This is a matter of...

Anonymous wrote: Anonymous wrote: what is the plural word for THE?? some singular nouns that stand plural nouns too Many thank TeresaPieanne has already replied as follows earlier. "The" is the definite article, and has the same form in the plural: The boy, the boys / the girl, the girls...

Anonymous wrote: what is the plural word for THE?? some singular nouns that stand plural nouns too Many thank Teresa

Hi, I think it has been noted in this forum that a genitive (I think it means a noun that has or is from a verbal root) can be (made it to be) a countable noun, possibly like this "a barking of a dog need not be heeded." Here, a barking can be said to be an instance of barking. 1. Why has the...

Hi, Sometimes I see phrasal cases where adjectives in front of a noun seem to warrant it to be plural but ends up being the case of shared adjectives. Is this one? Can you help me to clearly distinguish similar situations? both singular and plural tense -- When should 'tense' be 'tenses'? ...

Hi, Could you please explain that why there are no production data in June 10 & 20? Could you please explain why there are/is no production data for June 10 & 20? 'Data' is a plural word, but it is often treated as a singlar noun. Best wishes, Clive