I'm having difficulty understanding when to use students' vs students. I know you use students' when you're talking about more than one student. For example: "The students' homeworks were marked".
But grammatically, there is a difference. Nurdug's "one of the students' name" = " {one of the students}' name". Your "one of the students' names" = "one of {the students' names} ". In informal conversation, we might conceivably use nurdug's formulation, because the context would make it clear what we were talking about.
Talking is what we do when we speak words out loud. Your teacher probably forbids talking when students are taking a test. Shh! Are you having a discussion? Giving a lecture? Issuing commands to your dog? These are all examples of talking, using the power of speech to communicate.
She has developed skills in identifying problems from constantly analyzing student’s/students' language use. Hi, what is the factor in this sentence that determines the plurality if she has taught numerous students for a long period but taught one student at a time?
1 "All the students" and "all of the students" mean the same thing regardless of context. When you qualify all three with "in the school", they become interchangeable. But without that qualifier, "all students" would refer to all students everywhere, and the other two would refer to some previously specified group of students.
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Please have this post focus on the situations relevant to students or other countable noun plural; the different between "all of the time" and "all the time" please see ("all of the time" vs. "all the time" when referring to situations); other discussion related to time, please take a loot at here.
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Which one is correct? "There is no student in the class" "There are no students in the class" Thanks
Closed 1 year ago. Are these called columns of students or vertical rows of students? If they are called neither, what are they called then in AmE? I have circled the vertical rows of students in blue to know the thing whose name I am looking for.
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For a list, use "Student Names" or "Students' Names". Remember that nouns can function as adjectives in English. If you want to show group possession, you put an apostrophe after the "s". The second way is considered a fancier way of writing it since most native English speakers rarely use the plural-possessive apostrophe even though it's well-accepted. For a table-column heading, use "Student ...
Is my understanding correct that I can use "none of them" with a plural verb when meaning "not any of them", for example, "none of these students speak English".
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Biffo's "one of the students' names" equates to "one of the names of the students". But what I think nurdug is looking for is a way of using the saxon genitive to say "the name of one of the students".
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