Should I care about singular or plural for naming an excel file?

In office, there are many chances that we need to give aname of our file. For example, if I am going to name my excel file such as “employeepersonal data” or “Monthly Headcount Report”.Should I care about singular or plural for the noun.

Like to name it as “employees personal data” or “employees’personal data”? And “Monthly Headcounts  Report”?

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On top of the above question, I would like to add on one more example I experienced. One sentence I recently wrote as "For the expats, the marriage leave is based on the home country policy.".  Here I am also struggling to make the sentence as "The marriage leave is based on the home country policy." or "The marriage leaves are based on the home country policy. "? Asking English experts' help.

ichbingut 發表於 2017-5-7 02:48 PM

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I'm not an expert but I want to share my opinion. When it comes to general concept, singular form is ...

Thank you for the reply. It helps a lot.

pop00123 發表於 2017-5-7 02:49 PM

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This is very easy if you can recognize many examples that you often hear.
ex:
Bus stop

You are absolutely right. I didn't notice that I do see many signs in many places around my daily life. Those signs usually don't use plural to describe it or put an article ahead.
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ichbingut 發表於 2017-5-7 02:48 PM

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I'm not an expert but I want to share my opinion. When it comes to general concept, singular form is ...

thank you. I got that as a standard answer, too. I was even overthinking if singular form is the right answer, then the article should be included in the name of the file or not....

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dc1024 發表於 2017-5-14 08:51 AM

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a file name is just a file name, do whatever you want

Thank you. You're probably right. One my dutch colleague is from Project background. She knows all the details about formal English in projects. That makes me want to be like her. I don't want to make poor English in my work to make them think "it's okay, Taiwanese English is normally not that good".   ...

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wwcjwu 發表於 2017-5-19 07:32 PM

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Exactly...a file name is just a file name. Don't be too legalized with the grammar

Ha, you are probably right. I just don't want to lose face for Taiwanese. Work is work. Cheers man....

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rayyeh 發表於 2017-5-20 12:10 AM

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Thank you. You're probably right. One my dutch colleague is from Project background. She knows all ...

Thank you for your comment. I also appreciated that I can get answers from eyny. I actually googled and asked around about my questions before posting. And those English questions are from my real life. Cheers....

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pop00123 發表於 2017-5-20 06:10 PM

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A file name is a file name,but you can still learn a lot from it.

Doing whatever you want does not  ...

Thank you for being so supportive. Appreciate a lot....

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citizenkane 發表於 2018-8-4 11:31 AM

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"Marriage leave is based on the policy of the employee's country of origin".

Marriage leave is a s ...

Thank you. So I will take out the "s". Because when I am explaining the policy, I take "marriage leave" in singular way in general. Appreciate your reply....

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