Possessive: Beginning, beginner's, beginners' beginners class?
Feb 12, 2008 · A Beginners Guide is a guide for beginners, and it could also be called a a Beginners' Guide, if you like apostrophes. Call it a Beginner's Guide and it's a guide for one beginner: if there …
a kid/s meal - WordReference Forums
Jun 8, 2007 · We had a somewhat similar discussion about beginners class not long ago - start at post #29 in Possessive - Woman’s college - Baby oil - Beginners class - singular/plural possessives. …
Paint (in or with) watercolors/oils | WordReference Forums
Jan 24, 2019 · The meanings are the same. The difference lies in the nuance. With "with", you are thinking of the paint as a tool or an ingredient. With "in", you are thinking of it as an expressive …
at/in/with different level - WordReference Forums
Dec 26, 2015 · Informally: "John is better at English than Robert". Formally: "John is in grade B, while Robert is in grade C". I think that normally a class should consist of students with the same or similar …
I'm or my name is? - WordReference Forums
Nov 22, 2008 · When teaching beginners how to introduce themselves, which is best? Teaching them to say "I am John" or "My name is John"? Is the first more suitable for informal introduction and the …
Nurses Station - WordReference Forums
Apr 17, 2008 · I suppose avoiding it by talking about a Nurse Station, or Nursing Station, is out of the question It's either Nurses' because it is a station used by lots of nurses, or it is Nurses, plural noun …
Members list or members' list ... ? | WordReference Forums
Jul 30, 2008 · As it can be difficult to find the most relevant of the very many threads about possessive listed in the dictionary, I've done a bit of selecting: Possessive: Beginning, beginner's, beginners' …
disagree with or about - WordReference Forums
Sep 22, 2006 · I'm trying to think of how to explain to my ESL students (beginners) when we say " disagree with _____" " disagree about _________". I've been racking my brain trying to delineate the …
Quod/quae nocet, docet. - WordReference Forums
Jul 2, 2009 · In the textbook The Latin Language for Beginners by Kochetkova and Soboleva (edited in Russia, 2007) I've seen a sentence Quae nocet, docet. Is it a...
They exercise less than three times a week. - WordReference Forums
Jan 19, 2021 · 1. They exercise less than three times a week. 2. They exercise fewer than three times a week. This is from an examination for English beginners, and the answer key is [1]. Why is [2] wrong?