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The efforts of developed nations = developed nations' efforts.
Most nouns, when used to modify other nouns, are used in the singular. (Sports is the one example I can think of that stays plural.)
Car park, bed room, cherry pie, conference room, etc.
There's little point in asking...
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Power is used as an adjective. What sort of struggles? Power struggles.
(If the headline meant that the highly placed people, referred to as "the powers," were struggling, then the stuggle becomes a verb and would need to be in the plural. )
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Bugs Bunny was so universally known in American culture that many borrow that expression as a way of saying "Hi there. How are you? Anything new?"
You generally don't refer to other people as "Doc" (unless they are doctors) outside of that expression.
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I'm sure you'll hear your first example said, but I prefer: All I'm asking you to do is give me the wedding date.
If you're asking "for" something you want a noun, not an action.
All I'm asking for is the wedding date.
The wedding date is what I'm asking you...
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You should take heed of your doctor's advice. -- Okay, but perhaps a bit formal.You should give heed to your doctor's advice. -- Do we say "give heed" when you mean "take heed"? This is not an expression I use much.You should heed to your doctor's advice. -- No -...
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The first hour is 10 dollars. Each subseqent hour an hour is 3 dollars.It's $10 for the first hour and $3 for every hour or portion of an hour thereafter.
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As a current headline?
Unemployment rate rises for sixth straight month
Edited to remove erroneous S
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Her age is less half than his. If he is 40, she is less than 20Her age is not half more than his. If he is 40, she is less than 60.
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As we look back at 2002, we see that starting in March, the unemployment rate rose for six consecutive months. (not factual)
This marks the sixth consecutive month that the unemployment rate has risen.
The unemployment rate has been rising for six consecutive months.
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Can you describe the times you've heard "Doc" on TV? Was it said by a grey rabbit who walks on two legs?
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