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Abbas Rajabpour Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

" oF " grammar

It sounded like a broken record. It was a version of an old hit record called Good Times, the same four bars looped over and over.


Two questions :

1) Many nouns and adjectives are followed by "OF". What is the role of a word after that? Is it always a word or it can it be a phrase or even a clause?


2) What is the meaning of "the same four bars looped over and over?


I avoided rap music the way you step over a crack in the pavement.

Can u you paraphrase this sentence?

  

Top answer

1) "of" is almost always followed by something that has the role of a noun; this may be a simple noun or pronoun ("a bowl of soup"), a noun phrase ("a bowl of hot, steaming tomato soup"), or potentially a noun clause ("the opinion of whoever wrote the report"). There may one or two odd exceptions or debatable cases. 2) The same four bars of music are repeated over and over again.

— GPY

  • 1) "of" is almost always followed by something that has the role of a noun; this may be a simple noun or pronoun ("a bowl of soup"), a noun phrase ("a bowl of hot, steaming tomato soup"), or potentially a noun clause ("the opinion of whoever wrote the report").
  • There may one or two odd exceptions or debatable cases.
  • 2) The same four bars of music are repeated over and over again.
  • Abbas Rajabpour I avoided rap music the way you step over a crack in the pavement.
  • Stepping on cracks in the pavement is traditionally supposed to bring bad luck; to avoid this one may step over the cracks.
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1) "of" is almost always followed by something that has the role of a noun; this may be a simple noun or pronoun ("a bowl of soup"), a noun phrase ("a bowl of hot, steaming tomato soup"), or potentially a noun clause ("the opinion of whoever wrote the report"). There may one or two odd exceptions or debatable cases.

2) The same four bars of music are repeated over and over again.

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Abbas RajabpourMany nouns and adjectives are followed by "OF". What is the role of a word after that?

The first four that come to mind are these:

1. a noun phrase
2. a gerund clause
3. an interrogative content clause (an indirect question)
4. the infinitival variant of 3.

There may be others.

Examples.

1. a type of

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