Question posted by Mary Anne Santos Fernandez in the Forum’s Facebook page (April 12, 2015):
Apr 12th, 7:25pm
Is the sentence “Wanted: Teachers Applicants” correct? My idea is that the word “teachers” should be replaced with the singular form “teacher” since “applicants” carries the numbers.
I really thank you, Sir, for this academic exchange of ours because it’s really a big help.
My reply to Mary Anne:
You’re right. The word “teacher” should be in the singular form, but not because the noun “applicants” carries the numbers (plural in this case) but because “teacher” here is functioning as an adjective modifying “applicants.” The more serious problem though is that “applicants” is actually a redundancy in “Wanted: Teachers Applicants.” What’s really wanted are “teachers,” not “applicants,” so “Wanted: Teachers” suffices and can stand by itself.
