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Anonymous Posted 10 years ago
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Eden Project is a living plant museum.
-Does 'living'modify 'museum' or' plant'?
How can we reword the sentence?
-Does 'living'modify 'museum' or' plant'?
How can we reword the sentence?
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eg The Eden Project is a museum of living plants.
- eg The Eden Project is a museum of living plants.
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AnonymousEden Project is a living plant museum.The Eden Project is a living plant museum.
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Cliveeg The Eden Project is a museum of living plants.Why not, '... a living museum of plants'?
What is the rule?
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Anonymousa living museumThe museum is not alive. The museum does not breathe or eat or show any signs that it is living.
A living plant = The plant is alive. It is green and growing. It is not dead.
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AlpheccaStars Anonymousa living museumThe museum is not alive. The museum does not breathe or eat or show any signs that it is living.A living plant = The plant is alive. It is green and growing. It is not dead.Does the meaning only determine the modification?
A Persian carpet exhibition. Is it a Persian exhibition of carpets or an exhibition of Persian c
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A Persian carpet exhibition
In this phrase, there are two modifiers, so there are two possible parsings.
1. A Persian [carpet exhibition ]
2. A [Persian carpet] exhibition
Sometimes we have to use have to use our world knowledge in parsing.
But in this case, there is only one that works. If a person from Persia (a Persian) was putting on an exhibition of his carp
In this phrase, there are two modifiers, so there are two possible parsings.
1. A Persian [carpet exhibition ]
2. A [Persian carpet] exhibition
Sometimes we have to use have to use our world knowledge in parsing.
But in this case, there is only one that works. If a person from Persia (a Persian) was putting on an exhibition of his carp
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I have to say, when I first read this, without having seen the replies, I read "living" as modifying "plant museum" (and ultimately "museum"), with the description of the museum as "living" referring to the fact that it contains living plants.
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I think it's deliberately ambiguous. You could have a museum of dried flowers. But then the slogan 'We are a dead plant museum' isn't that enticing
I've not been to the Eden Project, but I think they mean that they are constantly finding new ways of exhibiting plants in interesting ways. So 'living' qualifies both the plants and the museum
Dave
I think it's deliberately ambiguous. You could have a museum of dried flowers. But then the slogan 'We are a dead plant museum' isn't that enticing
I've not been to the Eden Project, but I think they mean that they are constantly finding new ways of exhibiting plants in interesting ways. So 'living' qualifies both the plants and the museum
Dave
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AlpheccaStars1. A Persian [carpet exhibition ]Note also that, according to Huddleston, here Persian is a modifier (of carpet exhibition), but carpet is a complement (of exhibition) (derived from the verb-object combination to exhibit carpets).
AlpheccaStars2. A [Persian carpet] exhibition
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