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27 questions linked to/from "User accounts" or "users account"
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Young Surveyors Network or Young Surveyor Network? [duplicate]
I'm a surveyor and we are currently setting up our network. However, there seems to be a disagreement on the proper name of the group. The group is composed of young surveyors under the age of 35, ...
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Passenger quota or passengers quota? [duplicate]
One question please.
I am translating a web form into english.
In this specific case what is correct?
Passenger quota or Passengers quota ?
Vehicle quota or Vehicles quota ?
Thanks!
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plural nouns: should I add "s" ending to both nouns? [duplicate]
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“BookList” or “booksList?”
Is it correct to say “lesson count” or “lessons count”?
should a list of tokens be called a “token list” or a ...
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"Contact group" or "Contacts group"? [duplicate]
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I'm writing software, and I need to create an object that will contain a group of contacts. Contacts can belong to ...
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Giant slayer, witch hunter: why the singular form? [duplicate]
It is clear that the meaning of the collocations is:
slayer of giants
hunter of witches
But, why do they stay in singular when they are in a juxtaposition?
What is their grammatical funticion? Which ...
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Model group or models group? [duplicate]
Let say we have a group of models (car models, for example), how would you refer to it?:
model group or models group?
and in plural:
models groups or model groups?
We wanted to create a variable for a ...
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When are attributive nouns plural?
If I want to say:
"development of special weapons was
the first point in Hitler's
program..."
I will say this (a better form):
"special weapon development was..."
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is it
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Singular/plural Nouns as Adjectives [duplicate]
How do you know when to use singular or plural nouns if they're used as adjectives?
i.e.
32-bit computer vs 32-bits computer?
teacher union vs teachers union?
wedding planner vs weddings ...
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"Countries List" or "Country List"? [duplicate]
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“User accounts” or “users account”
“Employee list” or “employees list”
Should a list of tokens be called a “token list” or a “tokens list”
“BookList” or “booksList?”
Is it ...
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Should you say "job status" or "jobs status"?
I have a web application that displays the status of batch processing jobs on our computer cluster. To me, the title should read:
Job status
not
Jobs status
but I really don't know why and I'm ...
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Irregular plurals in noun adjuncts
Several psycholinguists1,2 have observed that English speakers do not use regular plurals in compounds, even when the noun refers to more than one instance (dog-catcher, *dogs-catcher), but do use ...
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"The woman's card" vs "the woman card"
In this recently uploaded video by CNN channel, it shows that it is not clear as to whether we should use the possessive apostrophe or not, though Sue Mendelsohn, Director of the Columbia Unv. Writing ...
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