Dear friend, for singular names ending in -s, the regular genitive is usual: Davis's , Charles's . Sometimes these nouns are treated as if they were plural: Davis' , Charles' - in this case the ending -s is still pronounced even

can someone please help me to correcting my work. i know there are many grammar mistakes please help me ,.i am posting my work here Lesson / Activity a) Objective To learn and enforce new basic words according to the level of the

what What does the word effect mean? From www.m-w.com ef·fect Function: noun 1 a: purport, intent b: basic meaning : essence 2: something that inevitably follows an antecedent (as a cause or agent) 3: an outward sign : appearance 4:

Here are some more and some explainations: Note that many form a pattern but the pattern may be broken as with goose/moose/papoose as mentioned above. Phalanx – Phalanges or phalanxes Platypus-platypi or platypuses

It is just convention. English spelling is not 100% consistent or regular. There have been many attempts at spelling reform, but none so far has gained any traction. There is no "academy" for English, as there can be for other languages.

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

At 08:15:06 on Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Einde O'Callaghan (Email Removed) wrote in (Email Removed): For which one might better say "When did you used to go to France?". I believe the spelling is "When did you use to go to France?"

Excuse me, I put 'Approaching' instead of 'Seizing'. Hi Ariel, Why don't you try the Cambridge Dictionary online? Just click in "show phonetics". :-) http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ Irma. BTW Mexican. Thanks, I am

Arcadian Rises wrote on 29 Aug 2004: OK, but is CyberCypher correct? NBC stands for National Broadcasting Company. A company is a singular noun. Only in AmE, but I'm using the BrE convention just a little linguistic humour there. I said