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Rai9999 Posted 11 years ago
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a naked phoenix women

Hi
I have two questions here
One is what is phoenix mean here, I looked up in dictionary, I think Phoenix is a noun, but here it should be a adjective word. and why a women??why is plural?
thanks
  

Top answer

"a ... women" is wrong. "phoenix woman/women" is OK in itself.

  • "a ...
  • women" is wrong.
  • "phoenix woman/women" is OK in itself.
  • While "phoenix" is a noun, it is very common in English for one noun to modify another, as in "committee meeting", "garden path", etc.
  • etc.
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"a ... women" is wrong.

"phoenix woman/women" is OK in itself. While "phoenix" is a noun, it is very common in English for one noun to modify another, as in "committee meeting", "garden path", etc. etc.

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