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- grammar - Difference between students vs students - English Language . . .
I'm having difficulty understanding when to use students' vs students I know you use students' when you're talking about more than one student For example: "The students' homeworks were marked"
- subject verb agreement - It were students . . . or It was students . . .
Consider: It were or was the students who wanted the teacher to declare Is there a way to identify when a collective noun will take a singular verb and when it will take a plural verb?
- There was no student or There were no students? Which is correct?
"There were students on the bus" ~ "There were no students on the bus" The negator "no" (a negative determiner) is of course required with the latter, but with positive plural NPs, a determiner is optional So you can say "there were twenty students on the bus" (quantified), or "there were students on the bus" (unquantified) You can also say "There was a student on the bus" and the negative
- singular vs plural - English Language Learners Stack Exchange
I don't know which of the two is grammatically correct or both are correct or the difference if they are both grammatically correct Please teach me a correct English No student was present vs
- prepositions - Is it a student in or of your class? - English . . .
Someone is only a "student of" a broad field of study, not an individual class If I say, I am a student of philosophy Then that means that I am generally interested in philosophy It doesn't necessarily even mean that I'm pursing a formal degree in philosophy, just that it is one of my personal interests (Aside: If I wanted to say that I was formally studying philosophy, especially as a
- We met the students whom you taught English. Versus We met the . . .
We met the students who you taught English The instructor said that it was wrong to use ' Who ' He said that ' Whom ' was the correct choice in standard English The reason he gave was that ' Who ' was subjective case and ' Whom ' was objective case
- Are these called columns of students or vertical rows of students . . .
Closed 1 year ago Are these called columns of students or vertical rows of students? If they are called neither, what are they called then in AmE? I have circled the vertical rows of students in blue to know the thing whose name I am looking for
- articles - Is there any difference between all students, all the . . .
1 "All the students" and "all of the students" mean the same thing regardless of context When you qualify all three with "in the school", they become interchangeable But without that qualifier, "all students" would refer to all students everywhere, and the other two would refer to some previously specified group of students
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