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Michaelting Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

All...must put on (singular/plural)

All students must put on their school badges (when/while/-) inside the school compound.

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All students must put on a school badge (when/while) inside the school compound.

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They all sound fine to me but I would say wear instead of put on. Putting on something only takes a moment and after one has done that one wears what one has put on. CB

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  • They all sound fine to me but I would say wear instead of put on.
  • Putting on something only takes a moment and after one has done that one wears what one has put on.
  • CB
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They all sound fine to me but I would say wear instead of put on. Putting on something only takes a moment and after one has done that one wears what one has put on.

CB
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All students must wear a school badge.

From my viewpoint, it means something like (100 students, 1 badge)

Is it really flawless?
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Look at it this way. A hundred students go into a bookshop and everybody buys a book. When they come out of the shop, the shop has sold a hundred books even though everybody bought just one book.

CB
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In that case,

All students bought books.

All students bought a book.

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