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Nat_16 Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

grammar

hey i need to know what is firstname and Lastname. for example assume My name as narayanan and my father name as radhakrishnan. now first name is narayanan and whose name should i include in my lastname. i m confused cause we dont have any specific family name.
  

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In most English-speaking countries, the surname , informally last name , is the family name, passed down through the father's line. It is the one that comes last. His surname is the same as that of his father, father's father, and so on back through the ages.

— Fivejedjon

  • In most English-speaking countries, the surname , informally last name , is the family name, passed down through the father's line.
  • It is the one that comes last.
  • His surname is the same as that of his father, father's father, and so on back through the ages.
  • It is also the surname of his offspring.
  • His son will keep that name and pass it on to his offspring, though his daughter may change her surname to that of her husband if she marries.
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In most English-speaking countries, the surname, informally last name, is the family name, passed down through the father's line. It is the one that comes last. For example, Postule is the surname of Percival Postule, and Percival is his first name.His surname is the same as that of his father, father's father, and so on back through the ages. It is also the sur
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@fivejedjon thanks for answering me. Yeah i understood. our system is different.
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This has come up often, but it's so different from our system of naming that (for me at least) it's hard for us to understand it. You say your name is Narayanan. Is that your only name? If there were two people with that name, how would their friends indicate which one they wanted to talk about? If there is some additional name that people use to identify you, like the name of your father or
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I just wanted to add that in English, many last names originally came from the father's name (like Johnson) or occupation (like Baker) or location (like York), but now they remain the same as they are handed down in each family. So maybe hundreds of years ago, you might have a man called John Jackson (Jack's son) and his son would be named Robert Johnson (John's son) and his son's name wo
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Thanks sir. Now i understood. Yes i want to make it short. This idea is good. Emotion: clap
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