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- 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
- What is the term for young adult male female (aged 18 to 25)?
An older person can refer to young adults as kids but it usually means children Finally, and probably best in your case, you can use youngster(s) Once more, though, this is a term that is used by older people towards younger ones
- expressions - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
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- Is there a synonym analogue to he said, she said that allows a . . .
Both of these situations are different on at least one point of a "he said, she said" situation in that all (adults) involved appreciate the other side at least somewhat, and that the two accounts can be connected in a coherent understanding
- abbreviations - What do CI, CIM, CID, CIB mean? - English Language . . .
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- Referring to adult-age sons and daughters as children
A native speaker of Arabic learning English has said that in Arabic, the word for sons and daughters is "أولاد" (awlaad) (Wiktionary link), and that it applies no matter how old they are, and that the word for people who are not adults is "أطفال" (atfaal) (Arabic language Wiktionary link) The person wanted to know whether you can
- Specific word for grown-up children? [duplicate]
There is no word I use kids when speaking to adults about my grown children, because it has less the connotation of youth (I think), but I have run into that problem myself I sometimes feel the need to say, my children, now adults or my married children when I want to avoid kids –
- What is the word for an adult who is not mature?
For as long as anyone tries to hold on to the advantages of childhood — the freedom from responsibility, principally — while seeking to lay claim to the best parts of adulthood, such as independence, he is an adolescent [ ] Eventually most people choose to be adults, or are forced into it
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