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Healer Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Life/lives

Do we take life as a way of living to be a singular noun even if it is of more than one person?

For example:

Our life/lives in America is hard.

  

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healer Do we take life as a way of living to be a singular noun even if it is of more than one person? You can, but you have to change the verb if you want the plural. " (By the way, you're doing something wrong if that's true.

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healerDo we take life as a way of living to be a singular noun even if it is of more than one person?

You can, but you have to change the verb if you want the plural.

If it's just you - "My life in America is hard." (By the way, you're doing something wrong if that's true. Try life in Bangladesh.)

If it's you and those you consider to be in part