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Bornplaydie Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

List of nouns as modifiers

Looking for the correct grammar in this sentence...

"I have planning and organizational skills", meaning, "I have planning skills and organizational skills".

I could write out "skills" after each but it becomes more cumbersome with a list of four.

(A) "I have planning, organizational, time management, and facilitation skills"

My wife, not a native speaker, is asking me why the endings don't have to agree, as in, (B) "I have planning, organizing, time managing, and facilitating skills".

My answer is that they all need to be nouns. For example, "organizing" is a verb, so I don't think I should be mixing nouns and verbs. Example (A) just sounds better to my native ear.

Can anyone shed light on this?

  

Top answer

bornplaydie "I have planning and organizational skills", meaning, "I have planning skills and organizational skills". Yes, OK. bornplaydie (A) "I have planning, organizational, time management, and facilitation skills" Yes, OK.

— Mister Micawber

  • bornplaydie "I have planning and organizational skills", meaning, "I have planning skills and organizational skills".
  • Yes, OK.
  • bornplaydie (A) "I have planning, organizational, time management, and facilitation skills" Yes, OK.
  • My answer is that they all need to be nouns.
  • Not nouns ('organizational' is an adjective); they all need to be correct modifiers of 'skills', that is all.
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bornplaydie"I have planning and organizational skills", meaning, "I have planning skills and organizational skills".

Yes, OK.

bornplaydie(A) "I have planning, organizational, time management, and facilitation skills"

Yes, OK.

bornplaydieMy wife, not a native speaker, is asking me why the
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