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Lcchang Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Life is little lessons.

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00Life is little lessons.02br
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00What does this sentence really mean? Why do "lessons" come with the plural form?02br
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00Please advise.02br
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" I think it would just refer to little things that you learn from experience, rather than from school or books. Could you tell us where you heard the phrase? Some context might help.

— Khoff

  • " I think it would just refer to little things that you learn from experience, rather than from school or books.
  • Could you tell us where you heard the phrase?
  • Some context might help.
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0 I think perhaps you have heard "life's little lessons" - it's not a sentence meaning "life 01b00is02b00 little lessons" but just a phrase meaning "the little lessons 01b00of02b00 life." I think it would just refer to little things that you learn from experience, rather than from school or books. Could you tell us where you heard the phrase? Some
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0Ooops!! You are right. The title that I read from the textbook goes "Life's little lessons". I just changed the way I thought it was.02br
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0 I agree with you in that it is just a phrase and it probably means "the little lessons of life," but quite cannot understand why the contraction "'s" is doing there when it only could mean "is." 0-
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0It is the possesive. The lessons belong to life.02br
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00Life's little lessons.02br
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00Air's lifegiving qualities02br
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00Water's thirstquenching nature.02br
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00's is being used in the same way as in02br
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00Amanda's big feet.02br
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00Believer's useful ques
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