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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

Names as adjectives?

Hi. Is this correct?

For the following sentence, Iet's say the name of the worksheet is "Ask & Ask."

Make copies of the Ask & Ask worksheet.

But I don't think we can put the name of a movie in front like the following sentence. If not, why is that? Thank you in advance.

He watched his long favorite Gone with the Wind movie.
  

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It is an interesting question for which I have no answer. You can do this: Make copies of the Ask & Ask worksheet / of the worksheet Ask & Ask. He watched his longtime favorite movie, Gone with the Wind .

— Mister Micawber

  • It is an interesting question for which I have no answer.
  • You can do this: Make copies of the Ask & Ask worksheet / of the worksheet Ask & Ask.
  • He watched his longtime favorite movie, Gone with the Wind .
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It is an interesting question for which I have no answer. You can do this:

Make copies of the Ask & Ask worksheet / of the worksheet Ask & Ask.
He watched his longtime favorite movie, Gone with the Wind.
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Hi,

I think one reason 'I watched the Gone with the Wind movie' sounds odd is that it is so well-known.

But consider a situation involving several obscure movies.
Here, it would not be odd to speak of eg 'the Hamsters on Ice movie'.
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He watched his long favorite Gone with the Wind movie.

This does not work, because there is only one movie named "Gone with the Wind".

It works fine when there is more than one thing with that name: eg.

We watched our favorite Spiderman movie last night.
He was reading his favorite Superman comic book.
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