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Persian Learner Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

Dead vs death

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I can't understand why they have used 'dead' in the position of a noun.Emotion: rolleyes Should it not be 'the death'?
  

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come back from the dead i s an idiomatic expression. But 'the dead' is sometimes used as a noun. eg After the battle, the dead lay all over the field.

  • come back from the dead i s an idiomatic expression.
  • But 'the dead' is sometimes used as a noun.
  • eg After the battle, the dead lay all over the field.
  • eg The soldiers buried their dead.
  • eg Do not speak ill of the dead..
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come back from the dead is an idiomatic expression.

But 'the dead' is sometimes used as a noun.
eg After the battle, the dead lay all over the field.
eg The soldiers buried their dead.
eg Do not speak ill of the dead..

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