Comments on: Common Plural Rules http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009/07/08/common-plural-rules/ Blogging Guides, News, Tips, Resources Sat, 13 Mar 2010 23:42:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Brandon http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009/07/08/common-plural-rules/#comment-330899 Brandon Fri, 31 Jul 2009 06:57:33 +0000 http://www.bloggingtips.com/?p=8275#comment-330899 In your compound words section, you say... "We do this generally by adding an –s to the main or principal word if the compound is hyphenated. If there’s no hyphenation, we make the last word plural." But then go on to post this as an example... ...attorney at law=attorneys at law,... I'm not trying to correct you, I'm just wondering if that is correct or not. I am what some would call a "grammar nazi," but hyphenation is one aspect of grammar that confuses me from time-to-time, so I would just like to know if that is the correct way to write it or if the first rule doesn't always apply (that no hyphenation doesn't always mean the last word is pluralized). In your compound words section, you say…

“We do this generally by adding an –s to the main or principal word if the compound is hyphenated. If there’s no hyphenation, we make the last word plural.”

But then go on to post this as an example…

…attorney at law=attorneys at law,…

I’m not trying to correct you, I’m just wondering if that is correct or not. I am what some would call a “grammar nazi,” but hyphenation is one aspect of grammar that confuses me from time-to-time, so I would just like to know if that is the correct way to write it or if the first rule doesn’t always apply (that no hyphenation doesn’t always mean the last word is pluralized).

]]> By: Patti Stafford http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009/07/08/common-plural-rules/#comment-329508 Patti Stafford Mon, 20 Jul 2009 21:27:39 +0000 http://www.bloggingtips.com/?p=8275#comment-329508 Thanks Matt, Glad you enjoyed it and feel it's worthy of sharing. Thanks Matt, Glad you enjoyed it and feel it’s worthy of sharing.

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]]> By: Matt Rogowski http://www.bloggingtips.com/2009/07/08/common-plural-rules/#comment-327796 Matt Rogowski Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:15:48 +0000 http://www.bloggingtips.com/?p=8275#comment-327796 Retweeted. Seeing people get this wrong is something that annoys me, and I always try and correct them. Obviously I can fully understand if someone who doesn't speak English as a first language, or someone with a learning difficulty makes errors like this, but some people are just lazy, and stick an 's' on the end of a word instead of thinking what it really needs to be. This is a good resource and I'll try and link people to it should it ever be needed. Actually not a bad thing to be printed out and handed to schoolchildren!! Retweeted. Seeing people get this wrong is something that annoys me, and I always try and correct them. Obviously I can fully understand if someone who doesn’t speak English as a first language, or someone with a learning difficulty makes errors like this, but some people are just lazy, and stick an ’s’ on the end of a word instead of thinking what it really needs to be.

This is a good resource and I’ll try and link people to it should it ever be needed. Actually not a bad thing to be printed out and handed to schoolchildren!!

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