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Ask for help > Tree Family or Family Tree - What īs correct?
Tree Family or Family Tree - What īs correct?
teacher drica
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Tree Family or Family Tree - What īs correct?
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I have a doubt: Can I use both: "Tree Family" and "Family Tree"?
Is rigth to say "Tree family"?
Help me, please.
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17 Jul 2009
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Lana.
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Tree family would make it the family of the tree (as if the tee were alive), or the family by the name Tree (Mr and Mrs Tree, and the little Johny Tree), or the species of a kind of a tree.
It should be family tree, because it is the tree of this family (not literally, of course, but genetically). |
17 Jul 2009
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douglas
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A "tree family" would be a family that lived in a tree (like a treehouse) or a momma tree and papa tree and a few baby trees.
"Family tree" is correct |
17 Jul 2009
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teacher drica
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Thnaks for all replies! It helped me a lot!
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17 Jul 2009
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