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although i know i can(or must?) say, "an advertisement of milk", I still wish to know,"a milk advertisement" or "milk advertisment"

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[nq:1]although i know i can(or must?) say, "an advertisement of milk", I still wish to know, "a milk advertisement" or "milk advertisment"[/nq]
Can you give us a bit more context the rest of the sentence?

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[nq:1]although i know i can(or must?) say, "an advertisement of milk", I stillwish to know, "a milk advertisement" or "milk advertisment"[/nq]
Unless someone can invent a special-case example, I should think you can't say "an advertisement of milk". It has to be "an advertisement FOR milk". Yes, you could say "a milk advertisement", but this form is probably less commonly used. All of these would refer to a particular example of such advertisements.
"Milk advertisement" (without the article) is unlikely. One could say "the advertising of milk" or " milk advertising" or "the advertisement of milk" in some contexts: "The advertising of milk is unnecessary, since we already buy as much as we need of this perishable product". Here you would be referring to a whole field of advertising, not to any particular example.

Alan Jones

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Ieyasu (Email Removed) wrote on 18 Nov 2003:
[nq:1]although i know i can(or must?) say, "an advertisement of milk",[/nq]
Sure, you can say this if you want to, but if you'd like it to be idiomatic English, it has to be "an advertisement for milk".
[nq:1]I still wish to know, "a milk advertisement" or "milk advertisment"[/nq]
A: Hey, honey, didja see that milk advertisement on TV today? B: Milk advertisement? What milk advertisement? Which channel, sweetie- pie?
A: Ya mean there was more than one?
B: Yeah. I saw a milk advertisement on channel 3 and another one of channel 35. Which one did you mean?
A: I meant the milk advertisement where the guy says how udderly delicious the milk is when it comes straight from the cow without pasteurization.
B: Oh! You're talking about real milk. Oh, no. I saw two advertisements for MILK: The Shampoo for Contented Cow-orkers.

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[nq:1]Unless someone can invent a special-case example, I should think you can't say "an advertisement of milk". It has to be "an advertisement FOR milk"[/nq]
That's not the way I use "advertisement".
If I wanted to find a used car to buy, I could advertise FOR a used car. If I wanted to sell a used car, I could publish an advertisement OF a used car.
The last sentence seems unremarkable to me.

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[nq:2]Unless someone can invent a special-case example, I should think you can't say "an advertisement of milk". It has to be "an advertisement FOR milk"[/nq]
[nq:1]That's not the way I use "advertisement". If I wanted to find a used car to buy, I could advertise ... sell a used car, I could publish an advertisement OF a used car. The last sentence seems unremarkable to me.[/nq]
If you were featured in an publicity campaign as someone that had lived to a ripe old age without ever breaking a bone, and attributed your sound bones to drinking a quart of milk every day, you'd be an advertisement for milk.

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[nq:2]Unless someone can invent a special-case example, I should think you can't say "an advertisement of milk". It has to be "an advertisement FOR milk"[/nq]
[nq:1]That's not the way I use "advertisement". If I wanted to find a used car to buy, I could advertise ... sell a used car, I could publish an advertisement OF a used car. The last sentence seems unremarkable to me.[/nq]
Perhaps, but anybody in the USA who actually managed to sell a car by advertising it would have "advertised a used car," the publishing usually having been done by someone else.

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