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| Aug 31, 2023 at 10:35 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | The usual scenario is that the premodifying (attributive) noun is in singular form, but this is not always the case. Travellers checks, systems analysts, women doctors and dogs homes (contrast donkey sanctuaries) are exceptions. And sometimes both forms are used by different sets of people (nine day wonder / nine days wonder): one has to check usage. | |
| Aug 31, 2023 at 6:01 | comment | added | Brandin | @EricBurel In English, the most natural way would be to move the plural marker to the very end of the noun phrase. So, although it's an ID for "data pages" in the plural, the natural way to attach an ID to that would be to attach it on as "data page ID" and "data page IDs" for the plural of that new phrase. In a programming language I'd probably write it as DataPageID or DataPageId; presonally I prefer "ID" because "Id" looks kind of silly to my eyes, but by preference, follow the local conventions of whatever environment you are programming in regarding capitalization style. | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 18:46 | comment | added | 11qq00 | @Eric Burel ~~In that case, with one-to-one correspondence datapage to ID, the intended parsing would be "[datapageID]s", and probably can be constructed in some (if not most, with long enough verbiage) languages unambiguously as such. some prioritzation scheme with brackets, underscores, and capitilzation, as seen in "[dataPage_id]s", could suit. | |
| Oct 7, 2021 at 18:44 | comment | added | 11qq00 | @RegDwight ~~And if wanting to explicitly indicate that the newspaper has more than one article (unnecessary in most cases, since a newspaper typically has always multiple articles), you could refer to its "articles' authors". | |
| Oct 10, 2017 at 9:11 | comment | added | Eric Burel | Sorry to bother, but I have a lot of trouble this those plural rules. Let's say that I have 10 datapages, each datapage have 1 id. An array of those "datapages ids", whould be named "DataPagesIds", "DataPageIds", "DataPage's Ids"... ? I am voluntarily reffering to technical stuff, because if I write <singular-noun> <plural-noun> (DataPageIds), we may think that 1 data page have 10 ids, where I mean the reverse... And if I write (DataPagesId), this is not good either, I could have 1 unique id for those 10 datapages. So datapage ids seems correct to me, yet more confusing than datapages ids. | |
| Sep 19, 2017 at 8:27 | comment | added | Flater | @MaëlNison "Newspaper article authors" refers to any authors of any articles that are found in any newspaper. "This newspaper's article authors" refers to any authors of any articles in this newspaper. "This newspaper article's authors" refers to any authors of this newspaper article. Using the possessive is an indication of whether you're talking about the general (e.g. any newspaper article) or the specific (e.g. this particular newspaper article). | |
| Dec 8, 2016 at 10:53 | comment | added | RegDwigнt | @AlanCarmack red herring is red and also a herring. And the worst part is, you full well know it. Don't troll noobs. They will keep making mistakes because of you. And just by the way: some of your examples are exceptionally ungrammatical in my neck of the woods. | |
| Dec 7, 2016 at 14:30 | comment | added | Alan Carmack | Jobs report, drugs dealer, weapons manufacturer, numbers crunching, Cubs fan, birds conservation etc | |
| Apr 3, 2015 at 16:03 | comment | added | Maël Nison | What if there is more than two nouns involved? For example, if I have multiple newspapers, where each one has multiple articles, each article having itself multiple authors, should I say "Newspaper article authors"? Or "Newspaper articles authors"? | |
| Aug 19, 2010 at 7:02 | vote | accept | avpaderno | ||
| Aug 18, 2010 at 19:03 | history | answered | RegDwigнt | CC BY-SA 2.5 |