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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

An adj + noun + noun/ Article + noun(or adj) + noun

That was when a huge weapons plant in Muscel Shoals.

How can a weapons plant make fertilizers?

All I know about some complex patterns of the part of speech combination is this: An adj + noun + noun/ Article + noun(or adj) + noun.

But it doesn't look that the above sentences apply the rules I know.

Q) how can s be added to a noun weapon in those structures.
  

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moon7296 That was when a huge weapons plant in Muscel Shoals. How can a weapons plant make fertilizers? There seems to be something missing here.

— Avangi

  • moon7296 That was when a huge weapons plant in Muscel Shoals.
  • How can a weapons plant make fertilizers?
  • There seems to be something missing here.
  • I don't find anything about fertilizers.
  • Terrorists often use chemical fertilizers (phosphates, I think) to make bombs, so you could say that a terrorist weapons plant used fertilizer as an ingredient in their production.
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moon7296That was when a huge weapons plant in Muscel Shoals.
How can a weapons plant make fertilizers?
There seems to be something missing here. I don't find anything about fertilizers.
Terrorists often use chemical fertilizers (phosphates, I think) to make bombs, so you could say that a terrorist weapons plant used fertilizer as an ingredient in thei
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moon7296it doesn't look that the above sentences apply the rules I know.
it doesn't look like the ...

Very perceptive. Normally when a noun is used as a modifier, it is in the singular. weapons is an exception. (sports is another exception, by the way.) I wish there were a list of the exceptions. There ca
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Hi, Jim,

Do you consider the "s" optional on "weapons" and "sports"?

Seems like I've seen "sport drink" as well as "sports drink," but I'm not 100% sure.

- A.
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AvangiDo you consider the "s" optional on "weapons" and "sports"?
Well, it all boils down to usage, really. I can't say I've ever seen weapon factory or sport drink, so in my idiolect those are oddities, and the regular forms are weapons factory and sports drink. There's also people mover, a "horizontal escalator" seen in ai
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Of course I had to look. Emotion: embarrassed

"Sports drink" and "weapons factory" are both four-to-one over the singular versions, a
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Thank you very much CJ, AV for the answers plus a series of conferences.

Avange. I cut some out in the example sentence No.2 because I thought they are adjuncts; you see the No.2 is not a sentence because of that.. sorry, my guess was turned out to be wrong!

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An adj + noun + noun/ Article + noun(or adj) + noun.

These rules make your head spin? hhhhh that's rea
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Got it! Thanks! I thought it was all one sentence. Emotion: thinking
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