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Winnipeg Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Loss of soldiers

"The loss of a hundred soldiers lost might be hard to make up for."
"A hundred soldiers lost might be hard to make up for."

Could there be something nonstandard about the second sentence?
  

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They are both non-standard. " Rover

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  • They are both non-standard.
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They are both non-standard.

"The loss of a hundred soldiers lost might be hard to make up for."
"A hundred lost soldiers lost might be hard to make up for."

Rover
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"The loss of a hundred soldiers lost might be hard to make up for."
Here, you mean the fighting power of a hundred soldiers.
If you intend to mean, the number of individual soldiers, then Rover has given you the answer:
"The loss of a hundred soldiers might be hard to make up."
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Thank you for your replies, Rover and Terry!

So, these are always the same (assuming loss & lost refer to deaths)?

"the loss of a hundred soldiers"
"a hundred soldier lost"
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