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Nina_Nia Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

A confusing headline

Hello,

Is it possible to read this statement in different ways so that 'favourite' will refer either to movies or bad girls? And 'five' will either refer to movies or bad girls?

Charlize Theron's Five Favorite Movie Bad Girls.( is the following rewording of this headline correct? Five bad girls of her five favourite movie)

I wasn't able to change the text's size Emotion: sad. Sorry.

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What you have is not correct. It would need to be 'Five Favoiurite Movie s ', but then the 'five' would refer to the 'movies' not the 'bad girls'. Offhand, I can't think of a way to do what you want.

— JoshStafford

  • What you have is not correct.
  • It would need to be 'Five Favoiurite Movie s ', but then the 'five' would refer to the 'movies' not the 'bad girls'.
  • Offhand, I can't think of a way to do what you want.
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What you have is not correct. It would need to be 'Five Favoiurite Movies', but then the 'five' would refer to the 'movies' not the 'bad girls'. Offhand, I can't think of a way to do what you want.
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I copied and pasted it from Yahoo news. Hmmm, so favourite refers to movies too, right?

Maybe it was confusing because as you say it's not correct.

Actually, the number of the girls and the movies is the same.

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Charlize Theron's Five Favorite Movie Bad Girls.


Is it possible to read this statement in different ways so that 'favourite' will refer either to movies or bad girls?

No. Charlize selected five characters from movies she had seen. She could have selected two characters from one movie, two from another,
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