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Old 03-Jul-2006, 13:50
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Arrow adding 'S' with women word? is this ok?

Is it ok to add 's' on women word?

like this --> womens

is that ok or not?
if that's ok then can you show me an examle sentence for this?

thanks in advance teacher.
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Default Re: adding 'S' with women word? is this ok?

Your question is not clear.
A woman -singular, women -plural.

There is 1 woman at the table.
There are 3 women at the table.
The woman's husband is here, too.
The women's husbands are here, too.
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Old 03-Jul-2006, 16:14
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Talking Re: adding 'S' with women word? is this ok?

you know
it is so in some languages, like persian. but in english, it is not so for the words that change their form after becoming plural.
for example we say:

book...........books
teacher.......teachers
but
woman........women
man............men
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Is it ok to add 's' on women word?
like this --> womens
is that ok or not?
if that's ok then can you show me an examle sentence for this?
thanks in advance teacher.
sg: woman
pl: women

The word "womens" does not exist. It can be used only in the following form:

The women`s clothes are very ellegant ["`s " is used here to state the genitive case]
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("Elegant".)
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Default Re: adding 'S' with women word? is this ok?

so you mean there is no word like --> womens
because women is already plural and adding 's' is already invalid huh?
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("Elegant".)

Thank you very much Mr Pedantic
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