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Pructus Posted 19 years ago
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00Did you know that Mrs. Cameron is good friends with your grandmother?02br
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00The above sentence, shouldn't it be like , "Did you know that Mrs. Cameron is a good friend with your grandmother?" ?02br
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00It's hard to understand how come, "is good friends with somebody" is possible.0-
  

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12br 12br 10Did you know that Mrs. 12br 12br 10The above sentence, shouldn't it be like , "Did you know that Mrs. " ?

— Philip

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01cite10Pructus12cite10Hi!12br
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10Did you know that Mrs. Cameron is good friends with your grandmother?12br
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10The above sentence, shouldn't it be like , "Did you know that Mrs. Cameron is a good 10friend with10 10your grandmother?" ? 12br
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10It's hard t
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21b20Did you know that Mrs. Cameron is good friends with your grandmother?22b22br
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0No, good friends is a common expression. I suppose because they are each friends with each other, giving you two friends, so that is why it is plural. It is talking about the relationship going both ways.02br
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00If you were to say 'Mrs Cameron is a good friend of Peter', it could be possible that Peter is not a good friend of Mrs Cameron. The friendship may mean a lot mo
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0I see...02br
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00Thanks, Philip and Nona....02br
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0 Thanks, Nona. 0-
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0Did you know that 01b00Mrs.02b00 Cameron is good friends with your grandmother?02br
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00'Mrs.' is AmE, while 'Mrs' is BrE.02br
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00So in BrE, it should be "Did you know that 01b00Mrs 02b00Cameron is good friends with your grandmother?"02br
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00Am I right in saying so?02br

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0It doesn't really matter. Some people use the period and some people don't.02br
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00The only time you should absolutely avoid it is in addresses (and only because our post office had a campaign to wipe out the use of punctuation in addresses to avoid errors caused by scruffy handwriting!).0-
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