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Peaceblinkfriend Posted 18 years ago
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'Genre paintings are often exemplar depictions of the ways of life in a particular period. '

Genre paintings are often exemplar depictions of the ways of life in a particular period. 

Does this sentence sound natural to you? I am not sure if I have used 'exemplar depictions' correctly. 

Thank you

PBF

[edit] typo corrected. Thanks to Clive ; )
  

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Hi, Genre paintings are often exemplar dicptions of the ways of life in a particular period. Does this sentence sound natural to you? I am not sure if I have used 'exemplar dicptions ' correctly.

— Clive

  • Hi, Genre paintings are often exemplar dicptions of the ways of life in a particular period.
  • Does this sentence sound natural to you?
  • I am not sure if I have used 'exemplar dicptions ' correctly.
  • Depictions.
  • Sounds OK, except would something that is 'genre' not be, by definition, 'exemplar'?
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Hi,
Genre paintings are often exemplar dicptions of the ways of life in a particular period.



Does this sentence sound natural to you? I am not sure if I have used 'exemplar dicptions' correctly.
Depictions.

Sounds OK, except would something that is 'genre' not be, by definition, 'exemplar'?

Clive
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Thanks for your reply Clive.

I wanted to say that it depicts examples of the ways of life in a particular period. I am not really sure if it clashes with 'genre'. 

Thanks again

PBF
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Hi,
The adjective is actually 'exemplary' rather than 'exemplar' (which is an uncommonly used noun).

The word 'exemplary' is not really just an adjectival form of the noun 'example'. It usually means more, that something is a good example, worth imitating.

eg He was a good man. He lived an exemplary life.

It can also occasionally mean the opposite, ie 'very ba
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