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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Constitute

Hello,

Can we use 'Constitue' in this context:
The army constitutes of soldiers, doctors and engineers.
I've only encoutered this word when they're speaking of the rules in law.

Thanks in advance!
  

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No. "constitutes of" is always wrong. ".

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  • No.
  • "constitutes of" is always wrong.
  • ".
  • These rather imply that the list of occupations is complete.
  • If that's not the case, you could say "The army includes doctors and engineers as well as soldiers".
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No. "constitutes of" is always wrong. A valid use of "constitute" would be "Soldiers, doctors and engineers constitute the army", but a better phrasing would probably be "The army consists of ...". These rather imply that the list of occupations is complete. If that's not the case, you could say "The army includes doctors and engineers as well as soldiers".
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"Soldiers, doctors and engineers constitute the army"

Can we replace 'constitute' with 'make up' when we don't want to change this sentence structure?

http://thesaurus.com/browse/constitute
I found throught this website that embody and constitute are synonyms, but can we use these words inter
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