The Blogs | The Times of Israel: Celebrating the Lives that Weren’t Lost: A Reflection on Israel’s Memorial Day
Celebrating the Lives that Weren’t Lost: A Reflection on Israel’s Memorial Day
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Muslims celebrate Eid al-Fitr, mourn lives lost in the Middle East | The Blade
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 ...
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 ...
Every young life cut short in battle is a tragedy and on Memorial Day we Israelis have been mourning each and every soldier killed defending our country. But every life that could have been lost and ...
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 ...