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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?
- prepositions - Im a student at from of in the XYZ department . . .
Question: If I'm pursuing studies at in the XYZ department, what is the correct preposition for the following sentence? I'm a student [at in from of] the XYZ department There are related
- 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
- Are there other names for students according to their year - except of . . .
The standard usage for 4-year schools in the United States (either high school or undergraduate university) is 1st year: freshman 2nd year: sophomore 3rd year: junior 4th year: senior As far as I know, these are not in general usage in other English-speaking countries And there are a few universities in the United States that do not use these terms, usually for historic or traditional reasons
- grammar - All students vs. All the students - English Language . . .
Please have this post focus on the situations relevant to students or other countable noun plural; the different between "all of the time" and "all the time" please see ("all of the time" vs "all the time" when referring to situations); other discussion related to time, please take a loot at here
- 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
- Wrong answer in a test (that doesnt seem wrong)
Contrast with the correct The teacher asked the students not to use dictionaries in the test tomorrow The teacher would rather the students _ haven't used dictionaries in the test tomorrow This is a tense mismatch, past tense versus tomorrow Compare with At the teacher's request, the students haven't used dictionaries in recent tests
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