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gali:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 19, 22:48:57
747S's.
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 19, 22:48:57
747S's.
Quote from: ZephyrZodiac on 2005 August 19, 22:52:58
Sorry, but you don't use an apostrophe for plurals!
I remember that I was taught in my English lessons that you put the apostrophe for single before the s - 747's seats (for instance), and for plural - after the s: 747s' seats.
Parent's favorite food (single) - my mom or dad
Parents' favorite food (plural) - my both parents
Was I taught right?
ZephyrZodiac:
That seems correct to me!
RainbowTigress:
I was an avid reader as a child, and so I learned a lot of words but not the pronunciation of them. So I was at grade school, and we were going to the gym for some kind of awards ceremony, and we were told to each take our chairs with us. My teacher told some of us to leave a space between the chairs, and noticing the pattern with the other chairs in front of us, I asked my teacher, "Oh, is this going to be the Aye-zul?" She cracked up laughing and I couldn't understand why until she told me that aisle was pronounced "I-uhl". I was so embarrassed!
ZephyrZodiac:
I had a similar problem, I was reading books like Lorna Doone and The Mill on the Floss by the time I was 9, and obviously came across hundreds of words I'd never heard used (too many to remember even one example)! In most languages a child of that age would know enough phonetics to pronounce the word correctly, but quite often an English speaking child will use their phonetic knowledge correctly, but if the word is not pronounced phonetically, it doesn't help! However, the very same word that you can't pronounce, you often work out the meaning for, as you obviously did with "aisle"!
Inge:
I was most put out when my mother tactfully corrected my prononciation of "bargain". I had been thinking it was "barjain" and it used to put my teeth on edge using the hard g in that word. I was only about 8 or 9
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