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Believer Posted 20 years ago
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0 1. Can I use the adjectives like the ones below as kind of nouns for greater effect or to add that great emphasis? 02 br
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00 2. How can the underlined word function without an article? 02 br
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01 i 00 ... that you can eat and has a shiny substance call 01 u 01 b 00 mother-of-pearl 02 b 02 u 00 inside its shell. 02 i 0-
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01 i 00 Hollywood has always been an irresistable, prefabricated methphor for 01 u 00 the crass 02 u 00 , 01 u 00 the materialistic 02 u 00 , 01 u 00 the shallow 02 u 00 , and 01 u 00 the craven 02 u 00 " (Neal Gabler) 02 i 02 br
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00 2. How can the underlined word function without an article? 02 br
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01 i 00 ... that you can eat and has a shiny substance call 01 u 01 b 00 mother-of-pearl 02 b 02 u 00 inside its shell. 02 i 0-
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0 1. Adjectives are commonly used that way, yes. " 02 br 02 br 00 2.
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- Adjectives are commonly used that way, yes.
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- It is an uncountable noun.
- Articles are usually used with countable nouns (a door, the lion).
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0 1. Adjectives are commonly used that way, yes. The poem on the Statue of Liberty does that: "Give me your tired, your poor..." 02 br
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00 2. It is an uncountable noun. Articles are usually used with countable nouns (a door, the lion). 0-
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00 2. It is an uncountable noun. Articles are usually used with countable nouns (a door, the lion). 0-
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