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24-Sep-2003, 00:40
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| | " I also mind that people want to stick their nose in other people's personal life. "
Right after leaving this forum, I stumbled onto this sentence somewhere.
Since people is used, do you think ' noses ' should be used instead of its singular form ?
I myself see it the way that since it is not the ' nose ' the person talked about, so leaves it in singular form, correct ? After all stick one's nose is a slang I guess | 
24-Sep-2003, 04:26
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Originally Posted by whl626 " I also mind that people want to stick their nose in other people's personal life. "
Right after leaving this forum, I stumbled onto this sentence somewhere.
Since people is used, do you think ' noses ' should be used instead of its singular form ?
I myself see it the way that since it is not the ' nose ' the person talked about, so leaves it in singular form, correct ? After all stick one's nose is a slang I guess | I agree with your first opinion. It should be their noses.
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24-Sep-2003, 06:52
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Originally Posted by RonBee The "it" in the sentence in question refers to a process or an action or a series of actions or a habit. (Take your pick. :wink: )
:) | That's right, Ron, you just speak out what I want to say about 'it'. :)
And as for 'love' used in my proceding line, I guess this word is pretty strong as you said and I will try not to overuse it next time.
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24-Sep-2003, 14:32
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Originally Posted by lucyarliwu Quote: |
Originally Posted by RonBee The "it" in the sentence in question refers to a process or an action or a series of actions or a habit. (Take your pick. :wink: )
:) | That's right, Ron, you just speak out what I want to say about 'it'. :)
And as for 'love' used in my proceding line, I guess this word is pretty strong as you said and I will try not to overuse it next time.
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25-Apr-2004, 07:17
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| | spend looks like to be used for money, time....those uncountable thing
can we use it,spend, for others? like times, ... | 
26-Apr-2004, 01:39
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| | We don't use 'spend' with 'times' very much- we use it with the uncoutable form when we think of 'time' as a commodity like money.  | 
27-Apr-2004, 22:58
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| | You can spend time with somebody or spend time doing something, but "spend times" is unlikely.
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24-Nov-2004, 02:41
| | | Re: Much or Many 1 Ooops ! sorry guyz i didn't get ur points so can u tell me once again
I have read that we use HOW MANY for Countable things en HOW MUCH for Uncountable things .... is it correct????
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| | Re: Much or Many 1 Hi, smasher, and welcome. You are right. Here the question is about how much money (uncountable).  | 
17-Dec-2004, 12:37
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Originally Posted by tdol What's the difference? | We use much for uncountable noun and we use many for countable noun like for example; pen, pencil... | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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