11-22-2012, 07:54 PM
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Bantamweight
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Hampshire, UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Iuanes
Somebody's, is singular, the 's marking possesive, so "Somebody's ass", being the ass belonging to somebody.
Somebodies is simply a plural noun. The way we see family > families.
Somebodies in this case would mean like, 'oh, your a nobody, those guys, they're somebodies". As in they're people of note, they're famous.
This has been the Grammar Minute.
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Oh the irony 
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