What can I call other students if I am also a student? I wonder what I can call other students, if I am also a student? For example, if I am talking to a professor, and want to mention other students just like me I know I can use "classmates" if we a
noun phrases - Why are colleagues becoming work colleagues . . . Presumably you can have other types of colleagues than "work" colleagues, but the back formation here seems a bit redundant There are other kinds of stations besides train stations, so the formation is more obviously beneficial there
Formal writing: …for my colleagues and {I me myself}. ? Because the letter of proposal is formal, I feel the phrase, for my colleagues and me, is jarring I want to change it to for my colleagues and I, but the antecedent requires an object You would not say: “This is a request to cover the cost […] for I” So, why use the subject pronoun I in the expression “my colleagues and…”?
Is it appropriate to use the salutation Dear All in a work email? If you are suggesting something formal, talking from position of rights or power, you may want to use more formal "Dear Colleagues" to make the argument stronger If you are making a proposal, and want to downplay it as in "hey, it's an idea, a basis for further thinking and please judge it as such", a simple 'All,' would do a better job
possessives - Genitive without apostrophe or s? - English Language . . . Have a look at @tchrist 's answer in the [Saxon Genitive or adjective] (Saxon Genitive or adjective) for a start And adding to Peter's answer, if you are rating the colleagues, a 'colleague rating system' is another and perhaps stylistically preferable option Peter's comment shows the advantage in keeping the apostrophe for cases of possession-rather-than-association
Correct Wording: Esteem of from your colleagues Esteem from your colleagues is the correct way to put it The Oxford entry: esteem (noun) Respect and admiration, typically for a person Since esteem is for someone, esteem from your colleagues is correct For example, if you were to show love for someone, that person receives love from you
her colleague and she her which pronoun should I use here? Since the person working is treated as a subject, the subject case should be used This becomes more evident if we consider that, would we use the alternative order for the complex subject, "Her and and her colleague…" wouldn't sound correct at all It seems that the grammar here should not depend on such a trivial matter as word order Is only correct "Her colleague and she were working on