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Reegis Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

His face had unnatural green colour.

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Is the sentence below correct or does it need an article?

His face had unnatural green colour.
  

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Reegis Is the sentence below correct In a pinch it may do. Reegis does it need an article? Yes.

— CalifJim

  • Reegis Is the sentence below correct In a pinch it may do.
  • Reegis does it need an article?
  • Yes.
  • had an unnatural ...
  • I get the impression that the writer is saying " one of those unnatural shades of green (which the reader may imagine)".
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ReegisIs the sentence below correct
In a pinch it may do.
Reegisdoes it need an article?
Yes. ... had an unnatural ... I get the impression that the writer is saying "one of those unnatural shades of green (which the reader may imagine)".

CJ
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My suspicion was that the author meant this:

http://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/colour_1?q=colour

of face
  • [uncountable] a red or pink colour in somebody’s face, especially when it shows that they look healthy or that they are
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ReegisThis meaning of 'colour' is uncountable, but it is not applicable here.
No, because no colour is explicitly mentioned in the idiom "bring colour to the cheeks", whereas "unnatural green" is certainly "a colour" just as much as "emerald green" or "sea green" are colours.

CJ
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ReegisThis meaning of 'colour' is uncountable, but it is not applicable here.
No, because no colour is explicitly mentioned in the idiom "bring colour to the cheeks", whereas "unnatural green" is certainly "a colour" just as much as "emerald green" or "sea green" are colours. Well, maybe not as much, but you get the idea, I think.

CJ
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