
Players, Player's and Players' - WordReference Forums
2015年5月21日 · Players - plural of player Player's - possessive, belonging to a player. I found a player's uniform in the room. Players' - plural possessive, belonging to a group of players. The team has a problem because its players' uniforms are missing.
duck-off - WordReference Forums
2022年11月13日 · The sentence is from a game where players must hatch as many ducks as possible. Some ducks are born mutants and players need to get rid of them. Maybe there is an idiomatic connotation here that I am not aware of. I found the following meanings of the word "duck-off" that don't seem to be relevant: 1. To lie down 2.
Dressing room/changing room or locker room? - WordReference …
2009年1月10日 · "Footballers" and "match" looks like non-US English (in the US, we would say "football players" and "game"), so you should use a British or other Commonwealth term. In the US, all three are used, but only one of them in relation to sports:
puppy-player-wither | WordReference Forums
2017年6月8日 · few of my friends had ambitions to work there. As small children, we had the same dreams that other kids did; we wanted to be astronauts or football players or action heroes. I wanted to be a professional puppy-player-wither, which at the time seemed eminently reasonable. J. D. Vance -...
What do you call the cards in a player's hand?
2022年6月20日 · In some games other players can take that dicarded card into their hand. 2. In some card games, there are "shared cards" (cards used by all the players) that are placed face-up on the table by the dealer. For example, in tournament poker ("7 card hold-em") each player's "hand" is 2 cards, and there are 5 "shared" cards on the table.
A group who has / who have | WordReference Forums
2010年3月23日 · The players of Real Madrid have won the World Cup. Nikon is going to announce a new camera. Nikon representatives are going to announce a new camera. From British folks, articles, etc I often see the plural, when no such distinction is made. It seems to me just to be the British style with collective nouns. Real Madrid have one the World Cup.
All Slavic languages: Correct pronunciation of famous names
2008年3月21日 · Ahoj, Due to the remarkable number of good tennis players from slavphones countries, I would like to know how to pronnounce some names properly. Serbia has the two good females Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic and the new threat for Nadal and Federer in male - Novak Djokovic. The -vic should...
First-string, second-string Vs Starting, Backup - WordReference …
2019年10月23日 · How well the three play together is as important as that, if not more important. The team's coach will try to determine the best combinations of players, even if that means using the second-best or third-best center with the best wings. The best line, as a unit, may not have any of the best individual players.
capitalizing names of titles or professions - WordReference Forums
2011年10月2日 · Why do we capitalize the words like : Teacher - Doctor ..... and not words like < player > it becomes as a job nowadays .
roleplay? role play? role-play? - WordReference Forums
2005年3月8日 · It should be role-play: Main Entry: role-play Pronunciation: 'rOl-"plA, -'plA transitive senses : ACT OUT <students were asked to role-play the thoughts and feelings of each character -- R. G. Lambert>