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Possessive: Beginning, beginner's, beginners' beginners class?
A Beginners Guide is a guide for beginners, and it could also be called a a Beginners' Guide, if you like apostrophes. Call it a Beginner's Guide and it's a guide for one beginner: if there were several beginners then they would each need one of such a guide. Now this class is for beginners.
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We had a somewhat similar discussion about beginners class not long ago - start at post #29 in Possessive - Woman’s college - Baby oil - Beginners class - singular/plural possessives. Sports car? Arms race? Clothes peg? Kids meal? Beginners class? Electricians pliers? Childrens club?
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The meanings are the same. The difference lies in the nuance. With "with", you are thinking of the paint as a tool or an ingredient. With "in", you are thinking of it as an expressive medium, similar to a language. You are "saying" something "in watercolours" much as you might say it "in French" or "in words".
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Informally: "John is better at English than Robert". Formally: "John is in grade B, while Robert is in grade C". I think that normally a class should consist of students with the same or similar level of skill or knowledge. If there is a class with beginners and advanced students together, it would make teaching more difficult and time consuming. .
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When teaching beginners how to introduce themselves, which is best? Teaching them to say "I am John" or "My name is John"? Is the first more suitable for informal introduction and the second one better for introducing ourselves by saying our name and surname? And is the second one the only one...
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I suppose avoiding it by talking about a Nurse Station, or Nursing Station, is out of the question It's either Nurses' because it is a station used by lots of nurses, or it is Nurses, plural noun used attributively. With the wisdom acquired from living through lots of threads on this topic, I'm still not sure. I recommend: Possessive - doctor's bag, blacksmith's apron, policeman's helmet - or ...
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As it can be difficult to find the most relevant of the very many threads about possessive listed in the dictionary, I've done a bit of selecting: Possessive: Beginning, beginner's, beginners' beginners class? Possessive - Woman’s college - Baby oil - Beginners class - singular/plural possessives. Not open for further replies.
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I'm trying to think of how to explain to my ESL students (beginners) when we say " disagree with _____" " disagree about _________". I've been racking my brain trying to delineate the contexts in which we do, but I haven't come to any solid conclusions. Can someone give me a nice systematic explanation with some help I can offer them? Thank you!
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In the textbook The Latin Language for Beginners by Kochetkova and Soboleva (edited in Russia, 2007) I've seen a sentence Quae nocet, docet. Is it a...
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1. They exercise less than three times a week. 2. They exercise fewer than three times a week. This is from an examination for English beginners, and the answer key is [1]. Why is [2] wrong?