These are the students’ book These are the students’ books The apostrophe is positioned directly after the person or thing it relates to. In this case the student or students, NOT the book or books.
Some students who do drugs get [a] good grades at school contrary to our expectations. This is another point. Isn't the word " use " better than " do " here, or does the word " do " convey another specific idea? Please explain.
Is there any difference between both and both the? For example: Both students passed the exam. Both the students passed the exam. Both windows are open. Both the windows are open.
I've heard that every native students say "Here" when the teacher calls their names to see if they are there attending the class. I recall in an English class in my country "Present" was used instead of "Here".
In US College terminology, they call a fourth-year college student a Senior. Most of their reasons were because you are a senior when you graduate from college. How about those courses who have 5-y...
Contrast with the correct The teacher asked the students not to use dictionaries in the test tomorrow. The teacher would rather the students _ haven't used dictionaries in the test tomorrow. This is a tense mismatch, past tense versus tomorrow. Compare with At the teacher's request, the students haven't used dictionaries in recent tests.
The students' exams were an overall failure. /'stuːdəntsɪz/ I was kind of surprised at first, but it made total sense to me, it could be either hypercorrection or the language itself changing.
Is the following sentence correct? A number of researchers are expected to attend the conference Notice that the sentence is using the plural verb "are" after "researchers" but I don't know if it...
The education glossary provided by the Great Schools Partnership (a US school reform think tank) defines cohort as students who are educated at the same period of time—a grade level or class of students (for example, the graduating class of 2004) would be the most common example of a student cohort.
1 "All the students" and "all of the students" mean the same thing regardless of context. When you qualify all three with "in the school", they become interchangeable. But without that qualifier, "all students" would refer to all students everywhere, and the other two would refer to some previously specified group of students.
