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Bookmark or Share- It is us? It is we? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeA crude search of the COCA and the BNC shows that it is we is just over nine times more frequent in American English than it is us, but only about five and a half times more frequent in British English. There may thus be a certain amount of instability in the use of the first person plural personal pronoun, as indeed there is in all personal ...
- nouns - Why are words ending in "-um" and "-us" pluralized to end in ...The plurals associated with words ending in -um or -us are not dictated by practice, but by precise, Latin, rules. In Latin - which is an inflected language - there are 5 declensions. Nouns are distributed among declensions and follow declension-specific rules.
- Ourselves vs us? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeIn the light of the completed sentence and your further explanation, I would say that the sentence is not one that a native speaker would normally produce, either with ourselves or with us. That is because my family is third person singular and both ourselves and us are first person plural. In a conversation, it would be clear by the time that ...
- Should it be 10 US$ or US$ 10? - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeAs for the placement of the country indicator, it's generally before the symbol/amount string: "US $10", although I have seen "$10 US" in magazines as well, so (as long as you're consistent) I wouldn't worry too much. If you choose "USD", it seems to be your choice whether to put it to the left or the right: "USD 10" or "10 USD".
- Correct usage of USD - English Language & Usage Stack Exchange“US$” and “USD” are fine for banks who work all day everyday with U.S. dollars, but why encode this information like that for the typical reader to decode? You just make your document harder to read. AUD. Nobody but bankers and Australians know what that is. How much harder is it to write: Australian dollars …?
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