MSN: Ship captain rejected 'crash stop' to save US tanker crew lives, court told
A Russian captain was focused on saving US lives when his container ship smashed into the side of an oil tanker causing a huge blaze, a court has heard. Vladimir Motin had been on sole watch duty last ...
Ship captain rejected 'crash stop' to save US tanker crew lives, court told
New York Post: New book reveals chilling accounts of Titanic captain’s last moments on sinking ship
He claimed that they were telling a Titanic lie. While Titanic Captain Edward John Smith’s official cause of death remains one of history’s enduring mysteries, author Dan E. Parkes has thrown cold ...
New book reveals chilling accounts of Titanic captain’s last moments on sinking ship
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 ...