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Believer Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

Pluralize this?

01. Whenever I encounter the kind of sentences as below, I want to put 01b00a plural of the underlined phrases02b00 eventhough the rule or the convention seem to recommend a singular version. Help.02br
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01i00We would like to extend an invitation (why not, invitations???) to 01u00any other members02u00 of your team to participate.02i02br
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01i00We would like to extend an invitation (why not, invitations???) to 01u00all the members02u00 of your team to participate. 02i02br
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00As to the emboldened part, am I doing the same thing that I am being confused about?02br
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002. In the case of the proper name, eventhough it is a proper name, it can be 01u00subdivided02u00 into various grammatical terms like the below:02br
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01i00The Eiffel Tower:02i02br
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01i00the - determiner02i02br
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01i00Eiffel - adjective02i02br
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01i00Tower - noun02i02br
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00Alos, as to the underllined verb, do I need to write like this, "sub-divided"?0-
  

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01-- As far as I am concerned, any combination is fine, as long as the meaning is clear (e.g. one invitation per member). I merely think it is more consistent to match singular with singular and plural with plural.02br
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00However, in your sentences, not all permutations are possible; there seems to be easy confusion as to whether a single member might get invitations (to
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0It looks to me like "extend an invitation" is acting like a verb. If you were talking about giving out written invitations, then it would be a noun and pluralized. Please correct me if I'm wrong about this.02br
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00My dictionary lists subdivided as one word, no hyphen.02br
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00Also, Eiffel is a proper noun. It's the name of the tower, not the type o
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0Thank you.02br
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00But in one of the posts from this forum, I am sure, indicated specifically that in the name "Eiffel Tower" has an adjective "Eiffel" in it. 02br
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00I was wondering then, can all or most of proper names be subclassified into various grammatical elements? 0-
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0That was I, Believer.02br
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00We must now distinguish between 01b00proper names02b00 and 01b00proper nouns02b00. A proper noun is a single word like 01i00Milwaukee, Tuesday, Christmas02i00. Proper nouns (I now quote from Quirk) often combine with descriptive words (01i00descriptors02i
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0Thank you.02br
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00Why did you say, "That was I" and not "That was me"? Were you 01u00grandizing02u00 yourself as you should do for some? 02br
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00Is there such a word as the underlined word?0-
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0I said it in order to perturb the readers of my post.02br
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01i00Grandize02i00 is not a word, but 01b01i00aggrandize02i02b00 is.0-
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