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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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fast food giant or giant....

This is an extract from euronews web site:

The British arm of the fast-food giant McDonald's said it would be ...

Why dont we say giant fast-food?!please explain!?







thanks a lot
  

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my try: Here fast-food giant means: one of the factories (McDonalds) which is a leader among this kind of business (selling fast-food). If you say giant fast-food, you mean that fast foos is giant itself.

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  • my try: Here fast-food giant means: one of the factories (McDonalds) which is a leader among this kind of business (selling fast-food).
  • If you say giant fast-food, you mean that fast foos is giant itself.
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my try:

Here fast-food giant means: one of the factories (McDonalds) which is a leader among this kind of business (selling fast-food).

If you say giant fast-food, you mean that fast foos is giant itself.
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Hi guys,

The British arm of the fast-food giant McDonald's said it would be ...

Why dont we say giant fast-food?!please explain!?

Let me try to explain in another way.

Let's add two commas to show the structure of the sentence more clearly.

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