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Listenever Posted 10 years ago
At 57 seconds, there's this line:
So that's it. Prey fears predator, and you stay in power?
I think the prey here is an uncountable noun, but why is the predator being treated as if it's an uncountable noun?
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predator uncountable noun?
At 57 seconds, there's this line:
So that's it. Prey fears predator, and you stay in power?
I think the prey here is an uncountable noun, but why is the predator being treated as if it's an uncountable noun?
Top answer
Haven't we discussed this already? Here, I'd just call it a kind of slogan, like 'Man bites dog'.
- Haven't we discussed this already?
- Here, I'd just call it a kind of slogan, like 'Man bites dog'.
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Haven't we discussed this already? Here, I'd just call it a kind of slogan, like 'Man bites dog'.
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Mister MicawberHaven't we discussed this already? Here, I'd just call it a kind of slogan, like 'Man bites dog'.Yes, we have. But there, "predator" was viewed as some kind of adjectival noun or a noun-modifying noun, which it clearly is not in the OP, because "predator" here acts as
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listeneveris it possible to say 'Prey fears predators' here?No. 'Prey' is countable there (http://fraze.it/n_search.jsp?q=%22a+prey%22&l=0) but the article is dropped as with 'predator' to make a sort of slogan or newspaper-headline type expression. (By the way, cou
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