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Forbesbc Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
plural surname
looking for a quick answer to a pluralization of a surname
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It would have been quicker if you had supplied the surname in your post.
- It would have been quicker if you had supplied the surname in your post.
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It would have been quicker if you had supplied the surname in your post.
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It happens in Chinese. As I know, there are two situations. One is original surname. Sometimes, there are more than two words as a surname-- a plural surname. For example, Ouyang. Ou could be a kind of surname.(ex: Rose Ou) Yang could be a surname as well.(ex: Peggy Yang) Ouyang would be ok, of course. (ex: Fei Ouyang) Or, take Mrs. Chen, her full name is Iris Lin. She is married to a man called
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Anonymous I want an examples of majority please........That has nothing to do with this thread.
To get back to the original question:
The Smith family are the Smiths.
The Jones family are the Joneses.
The Kennedy family are the Kennedys (not the Kennedies)
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You can also say "the Smith Brothers" or "The Smith family came to the party". In this it is better to treat them as a plural noun. "The Smith family want to come."
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