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Joseph A Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Comminications Satellites

Hello everyone,

Could you please tell me if "communications satellites" is correct in the following paragraph?

Tony: Yes, but how do they send the pictures round the world?

Sam: Good question. And I think you've just found the answer to our problem.

Tony: How do you mean?

Sam: Let's write about communications satellites!

Tony: Yes! Great!

Regards,

Joseph

  

Top answer

"communication s satellites" An attributive noun (noun modifier) is nearly always singular, not plural. There are exceptions for nouns that are usually in the plural form. news + paper = newspaper sports + stadium = sports stadium

  • "communication s satellites" An attributive noun (noun modifier) is nearly always singular, not plural.
  • There are exceptions for nouns that are usually in the plural form.
  • news + paper = newspaper sports + stadium = sports stadium
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"communications satellites"

An attributive noun (noun modifier) is nearly always singular, not plural.

There are exceptions for nouns that are usually in the plural form.

news + paper = newspaper
sports + stadium = sports stadium

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