Lives The Life Of Riley

Aug 5, 2012here are thousands of instances of "our life is short", and i seriously doubt many of them are specific to the lives of, say, a couple living together. It's perfectly normal to refer to human lives. A plural subject requires a plural object (lives), accordingly a singular subject requires a singular object (life).

I would say still life has undergone reification, which transforms it into a "standalone word". "everyone's life" or "everyone's lives"? Mar 30, 2015i searched on google for "personal and professional life" versus "personal and professional lives" and the result for each is around 500,000 results.

Feb 14, 2011many individuals lost their individual life. Or many individuals list their individual lives. Each person has one life right?

Having an impact on other’s lives having an impact on others’ lives i just can’t figure out how the apostrophe should be used. Look at it like this, 'he loves his life' and 'she loves her life' are obviously correct. "who lives there?" - this sentence is asking about the entire group (of residents of the residence) as a collective unit.

Hence, the verb "to live" adopts the third-person. Alert systems are important for the lives of elderly in home care. If however you wish to use the possessive of life, something that belongs to life, then use the apostrophe and s as with most.