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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
A fringe or fringes
Hi. Are they the same in meaning? Or are they different? Let's say there should be one fringe per garment. Thank you for your help in advance.
1. They wanted to wear a fringe on their garments.
2. They wanted to wear fringes on their garments.
1. They wanted to wear a fringe on their garments.
2. They wanted to wear fringes on their garments.
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Anonymous Hi. Are they the same in meaning? Or are they different?
- Anonymous Hi.
- Are they the same in meaning?
- Or are they different?
- differen t Let's say there should be one fringe per garment.
- Then say #1.
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Anonymous Hi. Are they the same in meaning? Or are they different? different Let's say there should be one fringe per garment. Then say #1.
1. They wanted to wear a fringe on their garments.
2. They wanted to wear fringes on their garments.
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Hi, thank you. One fringe per garment. So the sentence should be "They wanted to wear a fringe on their garments."
Now, one answer per question. But that doesn't seem to work when we have instructions like "Write answers to the following questions," which seems OK for asking an answer to a question, not multiple answers to a question. I hope what I wrote reflects what I wanted to say clea
Now, one answer per question. But that doesn't seem to work when we have instructions like "Write answers to the following questions," which seems OK for asking an answer to a question, not multiple answers to a question. I hope what I wrote reflects what I wanted to say clea
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AnonymousHi, thank you. One fringe per garment. So the sentence should be "They wanted to wear a fringe on their garments." Yes, otherwise there could be more than one fringe on each garment.
And no one would think that several or many garments are sharing one fringe!
Now, one ans
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