phillyvoice.com: Kada Scott's family invites public to her funeral 'to join in celebrating her life'
Kada Scott's family invites public to her funeral 'to join in celebrating her life'
The memorial service for Kada Scott, the 23-year-old East Mount Airy woman who was kidnapped and killed last month, will be open to the public, the family announced. The funeral will begin at 10 a.m.
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Here are thousands of instances of "our life is short", and I seriously doubt many of them are specific to the lives of, say, a couple living together. It's perfectly normal to refer to human lives collectively in the singular.
When to use "lives" as a plural of life? - English Language & Usage ...
A plural subject requires a plural object (lives), accordingly a singular subject requires a singular object (life). They can be used to mean one person or several people, however. So, if your intention is to refer to an individual who lost his or her life whilst saving the lives of more than one others, then the second is correct and the first incorrect. They is singular in this context, so ...
Why is the plural form of "life" "lives", while the plural form of ...
Many individuals lost their individual life. or Many individuals list their individual lives. Each person has one life right?
grammatical number - "Many lost their life" or "Many lost their lives ...
For sentence one: Look at it like this, 'He loves his life' and 'She loves her life' are obviously correct. Now, when we we say 'People love their _ .', we can mean two things: They love their own lives (separate lives) . They love the life that they are having together or share. Example: 'Software developers love their life' would mean that software developers love the life of software ...