At the side or sides?
Hi. I was looking up the word "staircase" in the Cambridge Online Dictionary and the dictionary had this definition. By the way, it had an example sentence after the colon.
a set of stairs inside a building, usually with a bar fixed on the wall or onto vertical poles at the side for you to hold on to:
Now, my question is "Can we use the phrase 'at the sides' in plural instead of 'at the side'?" I don't understand why it has to be "at the side" (in the singular) when the plural "poles" is used, which seems to denote one on each side of the stairs. I hope my question makes sense. Thank you in advance for your help.
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" That is not the usual staircase structure. Anonymous I don't understand why it has to be "at the side" (in the singular) when the plural "poles" is used, which seems to denote one on each side of the stairs. No, the poles are all on one side of the staircase in most houses; the other side is against the wall.
- " That is not the usual staircase structure.
- Anonymous I don't understand why it has to be "at the side" (in the singular) when the plural "poles" is used, which seems to denote one on each side of the stairs.
- No, the poles are all on one side of the staircase in most houses; the other side is against the wall.
- With a grand staircase in a ballroom, for instance, you might have poles and a railing on both sides of the staircase.
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Anonymous "Can we use the phrase 'at the sides' in plural instead of 'at the side'?"
That is not the usual staircase structure.
AnonymousI don't understand why it has to be "at the side" (in the singular) when the plural "poles" is used, which seems to denote one on each side of the stairs.
No, the poles are all on
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