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Hat gray 40 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

O holy night

....Hear the angel voices.”


Shouldn’t it be angelic or angels’?


Why did they use angel?

  

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hat gray 40 Why did they use angel? It's usually fairly useless to question word choices in poetry and/or song lyrics. They are too often based on emotions rather than on logic or grammar.

  • hat gray 40 Why did they use angel?
  • It's usually fairly useless to question word choices in poetry and/or song lyrics.
  • They are too often based on emotions rather than on logic or grammar.
  • Perhaps the writer felt that 'angel voices' was a nice way to say 'voices of angels'.
  • CJ
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hat gray 40Why did they use angel?

It's usually fairly useless to question word choices in poetry and/or song lyrics. They are too often based on emotions rather than on logic or grammar. Perhaps the writer felt that 'angel voices' was a nice way to say 'voices of angels'.

CJ

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