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Moon7296 Posted 15 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing
Noun deletion?
Then the master called the servant in. "You wicked servant,' he said, "I canceled all that debt of yours because you begged me to. Shouldn't you have had mercy on your fellow servant just as I had on you?
I think the noun "mercy" is taken out at the 2nd underlined part.
I have seen verbs taken out in a sentence but not a noun. (He ate an apple and Mary a tomato)(He ate an apple and Mary too) etc.
If I say ~~ your fellow servant just as I on you, is it not OK?
I think the noun "mercy" is taken out at the 2nd underlined part.
I have seen verbs taken out in a sentence but not a noun. (He ate an apple and Mary a tomato)(He ate an apple and Mary too) etc.
If I say ~~ your fellow servant just as I on you, is it not OK?
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Yes, 'mercy' is elided, but I think that is because 'to have mercy on' is a fixed verb phrase. No doubt there are others, but none springs to mind at the moment. No, you cannot elide the preposition as well.
- Yes, 'mercy' is elided, but I think that is because 'to have mercy on' is a fixed verb phrase.
- No doubt there are others, but none springs to mind at the moment.
- No, you cannot elide the preposition as well.
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Yes, 'mercy' is elided, but I think that is because 'to have mercy on' is a fixed verb phrase. No doubt there are others, but none springs to mind at the moment. No, you cannot elide the preposition as well.
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