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Poll: Many people lost their ____.

Many people lost their ____.

life
lives
Either could be used.

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  • Votes: 210
  • Comments: 1
  • Added: August 2014

Comments:

mogandlola

"Many people" is plural, so you use lives. You could alternately say "There was a great loss of life."

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