Why belongings instead of belonges
In the paragraph After the first items sold, he wrote to the new owners to see how his former (belong) ------------were being used. I used belonges, and you corrected me by belongings The questions is: Why? Please, why belongings instead of belonges?
5 Answers
Belongings is a noun. They are things that belong to someone, so he would be checking on his belongings. Belongs (there is no "e" in this form) is a verb and therefore indicates an action.
I have many belongings.
Those are my belongings
This hat belongs to me.
I hope this helps!
Hola May, ya te lo han contestado, pero sobre todo te quería decir: belong es regular y simplemente añade s al final, no es, cuando es tercera persona.
De todas formas aquí en esta frase no se requiere el verbo sino el sustantivo.
....cómo sus pertenencias eran usadas.
"Belongings" is a noun and that sentence structure requires a noun in that spot. "Belonges" isn't an English word. "Belong" is a verb and can't be used as a noun directly.
In English, "belonges" is not a word. English has many odd and irregular word forms that do not have rules attached. This is one of those cases. If something belongs to you, then in English it is a "belonging".
The answer is that there is no word in English "belonge" or "belonges". The noun is belongings
