Nov 28, 2013ย ยท Which is correct: "everyone's life" or "everyone's lives"? I know that when the pronoun everyone is used as a subject, it takes singular verb agreement (as in the sentence "Everyone was โ€ฆ

Jun 19, 2018ย ยท For instance: "Who lives there?" - This sentence is asking about the entire group (of residents of the residence) as a collective unit. Hence, the verb "to live" adopts the third-person โ€ฆ

Mar 30, 2015ย ยท I searched on Google for "Personal and Professional Life" versus "Personal and Professional Lives" and the result for each is around 500,000 results. I want to know if the following โ€ฆ

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A plural subject requires a plural object (lives), accordingly a singular subject requires a singular object (life). They can be used to mean one person or several people, however. So, if your intention is to โ€ฆ

Say this was one person addressing a third-party from a group of many. In this case 'we wait all our life' might be misconstrued to be speaking for oneself in a pseudo-royal sense, while 'all our lives' is โ€ฆ

Oct 13, 2015ย ยท I'm not sure which of the following is correct: having an impact on otherโ€™s lives having an impact on othersโ€™ lives I just canโ€™t figure out how the apostrophe should be used.

Aug 5, 2012ย ยท Here are thousands of instances of "our life is short", and I seriously doubt many of them are specific to the lives of, say, a couple living together. It's perfectly normal to refer to human lives โ€ฆ

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