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
"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