Dying, dyeing, and dieing are three different words. They can all be correct in the proper circumstances. However, dieing is most often a misspelling of dying. Take care to understand their meanings and uses.
“You’re welcome” is correct in most situations. It is a contraction of “You are welcome”. You will say this most often as a reply when someone thanks you. “Your” is for possession. Its function is different from “you’re”.
Both “you and I” and “you and me” are correct. The usage depends on the grammatical function of the noun phrase. “You and I” appears as a subject, while “you and me” appears as the object in a sentence.
The correct plural of octopus is octopuses. The forms “octopi” and “octopodes” have been reanalyzed forms created by others due to the word’s history as a Greek (and Latin) loan word. However, loan words in English almost always receive the regular plural ending.
Both ‘food’ and ‘foods’ is correct. Regularly, ‘food’ is an uncountable noun, so it doesn’t have a plural form in most cases. However, you can use the word ‘foods’ when you are talking about multiple types of food. The same is true for the words ‘fish’ and ‘people’.
Deer is pluralized as ‘deer’ because of the word’s history. In old English, deer did not receive a plural ending. As English changed and developed, it retained this quirk throughout its development and remains the same to this day.
The reason why the plural form of chief is not chieves is because this word was borrowed into English between 1100AD and 1400AD from Old French. During this time, English experienced many changes in grammar and vocabulary. English loanwords do not change in similar ways to native English words.
Long story short, the correct way to turn the word “children” into the possessive form is children’s. Since children is already plural, you would not spell it as childrens’. This only happens with plural words that end in the letter ‘S’.
The plural for bus is buses. The confusion between buses and busses likely comes from situations where English words double their final consonant. English nouns don’t do this. It happens most often for English verbs. Busses was once acceptable as a plural for bus, but it has since fallen out of use.
The short answer is, both of them are correct! Each of those expressions is grammatically correct English. Their differences lie with context. “I speak English.” and “I can speak in English.” both mean the same thing. However, using those phrases differently can completely change the meaning.
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