- Help with understanding Apostrophe for workers or workers
2 is correct The democracy is that of multiple workers, so workers is plural Because of that, the apostrophe applies to the plural form and is therefore after the s If the democracy was the "property" of a single worker, then it would be that worker's democracy
- abbreviations - What do CI, CIM, CID, CIB mean? - English Language . . .
I was talking to a friend about a girl, and he mentioned that “She can pretty much CI anything, CIB, CIM or CID ” I’m wondering what these mean The context was sexual experience Sorry if I missed
- Employees vs Staff - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
In your example, both sentences work just fine The second may seem a bit unnatural because employee is emphasizing that the workers are getting paid, but this is irrelevant in the context of your sentence (just a theory) For somebody learning English as a second language, both should be acceptable in my opinion
- Word to call a person that works in a store
specialty workers such as butchers, bakers, etc So there isn't a single word that would cover all persons working in a store I suppose salesperson might be the most common position
- Is it appropriate to use the salutation Dear All in a work email?
I have observed that in my work place, whenever a mail is sent to more than one person( like an information, meeting request or a notice etc ), the mail starts with the salutation "Dear All" This,
- grammaticality - Work (noun) is plural or singular? - English . . .
@jimsung I find my issue relevant enough to this question not to start a duplicate The issue is that based on the dictionary, your response "Work can be either singular or plural, and in your context, either is possible" seems unconvincing to me
- compound adjectives - Highly skilled or high-skilled? - English . . .
A Wikipedia article contains skilled, unskilled, semi-skilled, non-skilled and highly-skilled, as well as "Obama Immigration Order to Impact Millions, Includes Provisions for High-Skilled Workers" Although many credible examples for the collocation compound adjective 'high skilled' can be found on the internet, Google ngram results would
- Is there an adjective for people who work poorly together?
Several uncooperative co-workers caused the project to be delivered late Another possibility is individualistic: Several individualistic co-workers caused the project to be delivered late If you want a term that describes the group as a whole, then incohesiveness is possible: Due to incohesiveness, the team delivered the project late
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