It won't even tell me if it's a maxim. A noun acting as a description of the type of boat. Or they lost their life saving our lives.
For example, everything has different sides in our ________. I am confused when talking about a general idea using our life when sometimes i feel like using our lives. Please tell me the correct answer with appropriate explanation.
In the phrase life boat, life in a nominal adjective: They lost their lives saving our lives. Conclusions the print record for life is a bitch may go farther back than 1940, but i couldn't find any thing older than the instance from langston hughes, cited in the op's. In every other context, the correct plural of life.
His life's changed a lot since he married and settled down. The only way to use this word would be as a singular possessive meaning life has. ex: When should we use the plural form? What's the difference between in our life and in our lives?
The only context in which lifes is correct is when you are discussing still lifes, paintings that show things like flowers and fruit. I tried to find the etymology of the cliche when life gives you lemons, make lemonade on the internet, but so far i haven't had any luck. Look at it like this, 'he loves his life' and 'she loves her life' are obviously correct. A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or.
In that case, life will never be plural. I am not sure about what is correct use of words in the following line: