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Speakenglish2013 Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

plurals are making me dizzy

OK, i'm still learning English so please don't laugh.

Assuming I have more than one appliances and more than one pictures for each appliance, how should I begin by sentence?

1) Please attach the appliance pictures in your application.
2) Please attach the appliances pictures in your application.

So 1 or 2 guys?

Thanks for your wonderful explanation
  

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Assuming I have more than one appliance and more than one picture for each appliance, how should I begin my sentence? -- This way: 1) Please attach the appliance pictures to your application. Use the singular when the noun is used as an adjective.

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  • Assuming I have more than one appliance and more than one picture for each appliance, how should I begin my sentence?
  • -- This way: 1) Please attach the appliance pictures to your application.
  • Use the singular when the noun is used as an adjective.
  • the pictures of the appliances...
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Assuming I have more than one appliance and more than one picture for each appliance, how should I begin my sentence? -- This way:

1) Please attach the appliance pictures to your application.

Use the singular when the noun is used as an adjective. This is your other option:

...the pictures of the appli
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Neither. If you use # 1, it should be appliance's pictures. But that only means the pictures of one appliance. For #2, to mean more than one, you need appliances' pictures. But from a conversation perspective, the apostrophe "s" is not distinguishable. So I would consider: Please attached the pictures of t
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Does answer 1 mean I have more than one appliance?
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Thanks, your explanation has cleared a few doubts in my mind.
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