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Pritesh prit Posted 11 years ago
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Is 'of' necessary here?

His horse followed behind, keeping a distance the length of a horse's head.
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His horse followed behind, keeping a distance of the length of a horse's head.
  

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pritesh prit Is 'of' necessary here? No. "that was" is assumed, and you can almost always delete those words from a sentence when they come after a noun.

— CalifJim

  • pritesh prit Is 'of' necessary here?
  • No.
  • "that was" is assumed, and you can almost always delete those words from a sentence when they come after a noun.
  • keeping a distance (that was) the length of a horse's head .
  • CJ
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pritesh pritIs 'of' necessary here?
No. "that was" is assumed, and you can almost always delete those words from a sentence when they come after a noun.
... keeping a distance (that was) the length of a horse's head.

CJ
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