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Jobb Posted 22 years ago
Grammar

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Do you think the following sentence is grammatically correct?
And it sounds fine?

Emperor Part From Empress
  

Top answer

I think it should be like this: The emperor part from the empress.

  • I think it should be like this: The emperor part from the empress.
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12 Answers
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I think it should be like this:

The emperor part from the empress.
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Both were grammatically flawed.
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It looks like a headline. As such it need not be perfectly correct grammatically, especially with regard to articles like "the". Nevertheless, unless someone received a part of the emperor from the empress (his head?), this does not make sense. "Emperor Parts from Empress" seems to be the intended headline.

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Oh.... I thought the meaning of PART is TO GET SEPARATED.
Now I am confused.
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Part can be a verb meaning to separate or a noun meaning a piece of.

so the headline, refering to their separation, should be

Empress parts from Emperor

as Empress is singular.
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Hello Jobb

It could also be an imperative, written on a placard and held up during a demonstration outside the imperial palace:

EMPEROR
PART FROM
EMPRESS


If it were sent anonymously through the mail, however, it would need to be modified slightly, as emperors rarely heed badly punctuated advice:

'Emperor, p
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MrPedantic, would you like to explain the "placard"? I also didn't get what 'Emperor, part from the Empress!' mean.
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you said "someone received a part of the emperor from the empress (his head?)". But "Emperor Part From Empress' seems referring to "the empress gave her organ to the emperor".
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Hello again Jobb

A 'placard' consists of a large piece of cardboard attached to a stick. There is usually a message written on the cardboard in capital letters.

In this instance, the placard would say EMPEROR PART FROM EMPRESS. 'Part from' is an imperative, meaning 'separate yourself from'. As with headlines, it's permissible to leave out 'the' and 'a' when writing placards.
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Yes, you found another possible interpretation!
In the case of headlines it is often possible to find many readings, especially if you're willing to consider extremely fanciful ones!

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