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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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00 It's hard for me to decide whether I should use a plural adjective or singular adjective in situations like this. 02 br
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00 I propose a change in the 01 u 00 emplyees 02 u 00 pension plan. 02 br
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00 I propose a change in the 01 u 00 employee 02 u 00 pension plan. 02 br
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00 Sorry, should I include the word 'from' here? When should I include it and when not? 02 br
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00 If you propitiate someone, you stop them (from???) being angry 0-
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00 It's hard for me to decide whether I should use a plural adjective or singular adjective in situations like this. 02 br
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00 I propose a change in the 01 u 00 emplyees 02 u 00 pension plan. 02 br
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00 I propose a change in the 01 u 00 employee 02 u 00 pension plan. 02 br
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00 Sorry, should I include the word 'from' here? When should I include it and when not? 02 br
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00 If you propitiate someone, you stop them (from???) being angry 0-
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) There's a thread on that, but I can't find it. 0-
- ) There's a thread on that, but I can't find it.
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0 I think it's always the singular ( 01 b 01 i 01 u 00 noun 02 u 02 i 02 b 00 , used as adjective in compound noun.) There's a thread on that, but I can't find it. 02 br
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00 In the last one, you have a choice of using the possessive: "you 01 u 00 stop/prevent 02 u 00 01 b 01 i 00 their 02 i 02 b
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00 In the last one, you have a choice of using the possessive: "you 01 u 00 stop/prevent 02 u 00 01 b 01 i 00 their 02 i 02 b
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 whether I should use a plural adjective or singular adjective in situations like this. 12 blockquote10 It's not exactly an adjective; it's a noun used as an adjective. They are always singular. (Actually, there are a very few that are plural ( 01 i 00 sport 01 b 00 s 02 b
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0 Thank you, Jim. I checked the use cases using what I call 'NY Times search' and seem to came up with various uses: the employees pension plan, the employees' pension plan and employee pension 02 br
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00 Why do I seem to have seen all three varients? 0-
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00 Why do I seem to have seen all three varients? 0-
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0 I can make an arguement for the possessive "employees' pension plan" -- particularly when you want to differentiate it from some other plan -- but can find no justification for employees pension plan. 0-
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0 Thank you. 02 br
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00 I think there was a thread that dealt with this topic and in it, it talked about the correctness/validity of the phrases " the writers workshop" and "the writers' workshop" and I think Mr. M said something like "publishers don't like apostrophes." 02 br
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00 the teacher's seminar/conference 02 br
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00 the teachers
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00 I think there was a thread that dealt with this topic and in it, it talked about the correctness/validity of the phrases " the writers workshop" and "the writers' workshop" and I think Mr. M said something like "publishers don't like apostrophes." 02 br
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00 the teacher's seminar/conference 02 br
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00 the teachers
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