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A PhD Student's Perspective... ~20 authors.
by dcl 3y ago
A PhD Student's Perspective... ~20 authors.
- SecretDreams 3y agoIt takes a whole village (of uncredited MASc students) to get a PhD!
- est31 3y agoThe particular headline pattern is used a lot and 99% of the time it indeed is at the front of opinion pieces written by individuals. But this time, it's different. In the syntax, in this specific form, the plural and the singular come out the same. E.g. in the sentence "I accompanied my friend to his parent's house", it can be either the house of his single mom/dad or the house of his two parents living together.
- bdsa 3y ago"I accompanied my friend to his parents' house"
- agalunar 3y agoLike @bdsa points out with their example, the singular and plural are actually spelled differently, viz. "parent's house" and "parents' house", despite being pronounced the same way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_possessive#Nouns_and_noun_phrases https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_possessive#Nouns_and_n...
- wahahah 3y agoI pronouce the latter as ~parent-siz; having them the same never sat right with me.
- est31 3y agoOh that's interesting, thanks! Not a native speaker but I dimly remember hearing about this in english class, thanks for reminding. I guess then the PhD student is indeed grammatically a singular then. It can still refer to a PhD student in general though instead of a particular one. https://www.rit.edu/ntid/sea/processes/articles/grammatical/types/specificgeneral https://www.rit.edu/ntid/sea/processes/articles/grammatical/...
- reesul 3y agoTitle is off yeah, but the abstract does effectively say that the paper was written amongst a cohort of PhD students