- expressions - If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be considered . . .
If an adult gets kidnapped, would it still be considered "kid"napping? [duplicate] Ask Question Asked 11 years, 2 months ago Modified 11 years, 2 months ago
- What is the word for an adult who is not mature?
What term can be used for an adult, especially a man, who is in his forties and still behaves like a teenager, shunning responsibilities typical of mature people, preferring to enjoy himself?
- Specific word for grown-up children? [duplicate]
Is there a specific word for adult offspring? If all of your "children" are now in their adulthood, is there a specific word to refer to them?
- Trying to understand the nuances between ox, steer and bullock
American English: an adult animal of the cattle family, esp a male that has had its sexual organs removed (here "castrated" is qualified with "especially") Further, Wikipedia describes an ox as: An ox (plural oxen), also known as a bullock in Australia and India, is a bovine trained as a draft animal or riding animal
- Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children
Is it normal to refer to adult-age sons and daughters of someone as children? A native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and daughters is "أولاد" (awlaa
- What is the difference between man and human?
Sense of "adult male" is late (c 1000); Old English used wer and wif to distinguish the sexes, but wer began to disappear late 13c and was replaced by man Universal sense of the word remains in mankind and manslaughter
- Use of as per vs per - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
Similarly, cops cop: instead of "a man" we find employed "an adult male individual" Tinhorns have to blow hard--such is the nature of tin--and so come to be known as blowhards *"per" is here used in the legal sense, i e that conveyed by "as stated by"
- possessives - adults’ English teacher or adult’s English teacher . . .
Distinguish your audience in a prepositional phrase "I am an English teacher for adult learners" or "I am an English teacher for adults " If it is important you say teacher, this breaks up the information in a way that makes adults more proximal to teacher than English, and uses for to disambiguate the purpose
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