Can we use the word 'brewing' as an adjective ?
"The century began with brewing war in Europe, well established industrial revolution, and a nascent communication age. "
Could you please tell me if anything is wrong with above sentence, especially the usage of the word 'brewing' as an adjective.
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The century began with brewing war in Europe, a well-established industrial revolution, and a nascent communication age. "Brewing" is correct enough there, but I think it misleads the reader, who doesn't realize it's an adjective until it is too late, especially if he has had a pint or two, and even then is tempted to imagine a conflict between rival beermakers. "Well-established" needs its hyphen and an article.
- The century began with brewing war in Europe, a well-established industrial revolution, and a nascent communication age.
- "Brewing" is correct enough there, but I think it misleads the reader, who doesn't realize it's an adjective until it is too late, especially if he has had a pint or two, and even then is tempted to imagine a conflict between rival beermakers.
- "Well-established" needs its hyphen and an article.
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The century began with brewing war in Europe, a well-established industrial revolution, and a nascent communication age.
"Brewing" is correct enough there, but I think it misleads the reader, who doesn't realize it's an adjective until it is too late, especially if he has had a pint or two, and even then is tempted to imagine a conflict between rival beermakers.
"Well-established"
0anonymous"The century began with brewing war in Europe, well established industrial revolution, and a nascent communication age. "
The usual word order is brewing as a post-modifier because it is accompanied by the prepositional phrase, an adverbial modifier, "in Europe":
"The century began with a war brewing in Europe, a well-established industrial r
0Is this a commercial war between breweries (maybe Belgium competing fiercely against Munich or Czechoslovakia; rather like "the pig war" between Austro-Hungary and Serbia)? In that case "The century began with a brewing war in Europe." "Brewing" is just an adjective, like "working class" or "parking places". (Since it is a particular war, you need "a" or "the".)
Or does it mean that war
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