Hi Tom Yes, I saw your sentence with "kid gloves", I just wanted to make sure you didn't think the possessive "kid's" was an option. Your sentence is fine. When you treat someone with kid gloves, you interact with that

I have always known that after an indefinite pronoun, namely "everyone," "somebody" etc, the correct possessive pronoun to be used is "their." E.g.: Everyone should always do their best. However, the "Canadian

I have always known that after an indefinite pronoun, namely "everyone," "somebody" etc, the correct possessive pronoun to be used is "their." E.g.: Everyone should always do their best. However, the "Canadian

The first sentence isn't a natural one at all. Maybe something like "The women at the aerobics class worked hard to keep their bodies in shape." I'd use the plural there. With the children and their snacks, I'd use the

The women's clothes on their bodies looked nice. In this sentence, is it okay to have clothes and bodies plural since women is plural? Or should they still be singular? Also... The group of children had their snacks. Does this mean that

1) One has to work hard to realise one's goal. (BrE) Hi Yoong Liat You seem to like labeling things as BE or AmE, however in my opinion, your labels are often very misleading. Labeling something as BE suggests that it is not used in AmE, and

I agree with Philip the use of "one" tends to sound stuffy in many contexts, but that doesn't mean it always does, and that also doesn't mean that "one is not used in AmE. It seems to me that "one" has a much more

Welcome to English Forums! "Good" is an adjective. You need an adverb to modify "draw." It should be, "I still did not draw too well ." "Your" is a possessive pronoun. Your sentence needs

can you help analyze the structure of this sentence? I cannot understand its grammatical structure. inspect one's way?? what's that? Beth Levin ( English Verb Classes and Alternations ) classifies it as the X's way construction.

I would have expected '..of the customer's using it' Yeah, very many people do not bother with the possessive in cases like this. Some deliberately avoid it because they think it looks pedantic, but the majority are blissfully