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[gategrrl]

God help me. My Business Communications class (the grammar one) has me so flustered I'm afraid I've made a half dozen mistakes on the simple quizzes the prof has given us to do. I did the first three which tackle Nouns, Noun Plurals and again, Noun Plurals. BUT she added in fiendish nouns like "Ms." "Mrs." and "Mr." to pluralize. And "the". Um. Oh boy. I looked them up in the book I had to buy for this class and *couldn't find them listed* anywhere!

I'm starting to feel like I'll be lucky to get a B- in this class. Oh god.

Comments

[justalurkr.livejournal.com]

Um, why would one pluralize "the?"

[superbadgirl]

Everyone knows the plural of the is "thes." It's totally a trick question.

;)

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

You got me. I think it was a trick word on the list.

[khek.livejournal.com]

Is the plural of "the" "these"?

[gategrrl.livejournal.com]

OMG, you know, I think you're correct. I just put "the" down on the quiz and got it wrong, but your answer makes sense.

The dog.

These dogs.

Maybe. She didn't give the correct answers to the quizzes when she sent them back.

I still don't know what the correct answer to Mr. Mrs. and Ms. are. And I got them all wrong, even though I looked up their plurals on the internet. I used what turned out to be the English (as in England) version of those plurals.