" the sun burnt the skin on my arms. "
Can I say " my arms skin were scorched by the sun " to mean the same thing ?
The skin on my arms was scorched by the sun. :DOriginally Posted by whl626
'skin' is singular. It covers your entire body in one single top layer. There are no parts. So it's singular.
:( arms' skin means, *skin of my arms
Skin covers your arms, so use skin on my arms
Cas :D
Thanks Cas :)
Arms' skin sounds awkward indeed :P
I'd omit 'skin' altogether- the sun is unlikely to burn the bones.
I've only heard "I got a sunburn" or "I got a sunburn on my back" or some expression such as that.
:)
A colleague once mentioned that it wasn't until his second year of university, in a morphology class in which he was analysing compound words, that he noticed to his embarrassement and shame that a word he had always know as [sum]burn was not spelled 'someburn':I've only heard "I got a sunburn" or "I got a sunburn on my back" or some expression such as that.
:)
:D I've got a sunburn on my back.
:( I've got a sumburn on my back.
:D I've got some burn on my back.
:( I've got a someburn on my back.
Cas :D
" i got a sunburn on my back " is the most appropriate way of ssaying I guess :). Any mentioning about the skin sounds like a direct translation from a mother tongue of sorts :)
May I make a suggestion? Say: mention of. Example:
- I dislike that guy so much that at the mention of his name I see red.
Common collocations:
- talk about
mention of
speak of
English is a funny language.
:wink:
I see, and discuss something :). Not discuss about :P. But it seems that even people know it, they can't help making the same mistake. If I am not wrong, it will be universally accepted in the future because it is an incorrigible mistake :P like an automatic pilot in speech.
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