Hi theirs, Hi, there. Theirs is the third person plural possessive pronoun: Our house is smaller than theirs.

Berkeley, Your question is all about subjects and objects, but people have become confused about these when in their pronoun form (subject "I" or object "me" rather than "Berkeley"). If you're leading

I have taught English as a Second language to new learners. The question/answer pair "What is this?" / "This is a ..."  is lesson 2 (after introductions "Hello, my name is...", "What's your name?") t

Hi Hoa Thai There were a number of details that I considered in my last post. These included the following: - Sold out used strictly as a verb vs sold out used like an adjective - Verb tense - Using sold vs sold out (particularly in combination

You have a problem with the word order. Are all the sentences correct? No, we are asking if they share the same single meaning, one meaning, so the plural 'meanings' is not correct. If the answer is yes, you would say 'yes, they have the

Alienvoord wrote: What's so wrong with some variation anyway? Many thanks, Alienvoord. I have never seen plurals like Jones's used in modern English, but if they are palatable to native speakers, it only adds to the colorfulness (and confusion)

Hi Forbes Thank you for your long reply. I do appreciate it. I would just like to say that I my opinion is based on the knowledge I have of the Germanic and Romance languages and it is of course very subjective. I fully understand that not

David schrieb: (Snip all else) ("Was that our Tom Henry cat the dog just ate?") Secondly, although it might be difficult to work out the ... possible meaning but the right one is very, very fishy. It woujld have been clearer if you'd

Languages are always losing some distinctions and gaining new ones. English lost the singular second person pronoun "thou", but we can still make the distinction between singular and plural second person when we need to, by using "you guys", "you

You are getting there and it is easy to understand what you mean. You still have grammatical problems to keep practising with. Watch your word order. Make sure your articles and nouns match, for example 'a different features' - a is singular