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Bookmark or Share- Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as childrenA native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and daughters is "أولاد" (awlaad) (Wiktionary link), and that it applies no matter how old they are, and that the word for people who are not adults is "أطفال" (atfaal) (Arabic language Wiktionary link). The person wanted to know whether you can ...
- Correct hyphenation of age groups (18-25-year-olds / 18- to 25-year ...As the title suggests, I'd like to ask your opinion on the correct way (or most common/recommended way) to write about different age groups. Let's imagine you have a table showing several age groups of adults such as 18-25, 26-40, 41-60 etc.
- Which is correct: The rest of the staff is or are? The rest of my ...Either singular or plural can be correct, especially in British English. The reason can be seen in two steps, involving two things which complicate subject-verb agreement: number-transparent nouns and collective nouns (CGEL, pp. 501-504).
- single word requests - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeWhat about prime adult or early adult?From the Wikipedia entry for 'young adult': A young/prime adult, according to Erik Erikson's stages of human development, is generally a person between the age of 20 - 40, whereas an adolescent is a person between the age of 13 - 19,1[2] although definitions and opinions vary.
- Can "Mr", "Mrs", etc. be used with a first name?[First Name] is especially common in the U.S. South and as a way for children to address adults who aren't related to them. But I don't think that anyone has pointed out that Mister [First Name] , Miss [First Name] , etc., were a standard way for African American slaves (and later, servants) in the South to address their masters (and later ...
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