More than one staff?
- Staffs
- Staves
- Either
- Neither
- Depends
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Stäve.
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The show dark showed us that the great-grandfather wat already killed when the time-traveler was born. Therefore, he was not the real great-grandfather.
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âNeitherâ or âBothâ should be added as options.
In the Harry Potter universe, the time travelerâs actions would already have happened, so the great grandfather would die but also the kid, but the kidâs time traveling clone would live. In the real world, the space time continuum would shut down and neither would die, and both would live.
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Where you live, the climate this year is
- the same
- worse
- better
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Worse or better than what?
We had practically no snow this winter, but summer was not quite as hot as last and forelast year, but still hotter than what used to be normal for 30; years.
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Which of these situations are ironic?
- An old man turned ninety-eight, won the lottery, and died the next day
- A black fly in your Chardonnay
- A death row pardon two minutes too late
- Rain on your wedding day
- A free ride when youâve already paid
- The good advice that you just didnât take
- He waited his whole damn life to take that flight, and as the plane crashed down, he thought âWell, isnât this niceâ
- A traffic jam when youâre already late
- A âno smokingâ sign on your cigarette break
- Ten thousand spoons when all you need is a knife
- Meeting the man of my dreams and then meeting his beautiful wife
- The naming and general message of Alanis Morissetteâs song âIronicâ
- None of the above
- Voting for âNone of the aboveâ and also something else in this poll
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Life has a funny way of helping you out
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While âstavesâ and âstaffsâ are both valid words, and can sometimes be used interchangeably, there are also situations where one is more appropriate than the other. Hence, it depends on the context.
For example:
The hiring manager staffs the office with fresh graduates.
A snack staves off hunger before the next meal.
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Mark seemed to only be referring to the plural of staff.
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But doesnât this example refer to hiring a plurality of staff?
The hiring manager staffs the office with fresh graduates.
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As before
No, staff is a verb here, meaning âto hire staff (for)â. Itâs being conjugated as a present-tense verb.
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Hereâs a take by George Carlin on irony, even if I donât really agree:
To me a fact is ironic when you feel like destiny is making fun of you and you laugh about it cause it looks like it happened on purpose. So the more coincidences are present the more ironic the fact is.
I feel like many of these would become ironic with additional circumstances. For instance, rain during your marriage becomes really ironic if you really didnât expect it, maybe because itâs spring. And the less likely it is to have rain just on that precise day, the more it is ironic.
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In the early 2000s my brother took me to see her in concert in Geneva. She changed âwifeâ to âhusbandâ when she sang that song.
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Iâm talking about the new hires, which ironically might simply be referred to as âthe staffâ even though there are more than one of them.
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staff (smployees) is a plural noun to begin with, The singular is member of staff.
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This sentence doesnât describe more than one staff. It describes an action involving more than one graduate.
This sentence doesnât describe more than one staff. It describes an action to non-quantifiable hunger.
It may help to think of staff (noun). Iâm not sure that verbs can be plural.
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How would you describe this discussion about âstaffsâ?
- Sarcastic
- Pedantic
- Ironic
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Is it really plural though? Are some of the following sentences wrong?
The staff is committed to customer service.
The staff are each performing their assigned tasks.
Yes, the staff is committed should properly be the staff are committed. However, the data / datum problem can potentially emerge.
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