A noun acting as a description of the type of boat. I am not sure about what is correct use of words in the following line: Two of the life boats sank.
It won't even tell me if it's a maxim. 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. The only context in which lifes is correct is when you are discussing still lifes, paintings that show things like flowers and fruit.
In the phrase life boat, life in a nominal adjective: His life's changed a lot since he married and settled down. 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. The only way to use this word would be as a singular possessive meaning life has. ex:
In every other context, the correct plural of life. They lost their lives saving our lives. When should we use the plural form? Or they lost their life saving our lives.
Now, when we we say 'people love their _.', we can mean two things: 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. For example, everything has different sides in our ________. What's the difference between in our life and in our lives?
I am confused when talking about a general idea using our life when sometimes i feel like using our lives. In that case, life will never be plural.