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Taka Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Property

The properties of sounds

If "of" was replaced with "as" as:

The properties as sounds

would it still OK and make the same sense?
  

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Taka The properties as sounds would it still be OK and make the same sense? No.

  • Taka The properties as sounds would it still be OK and make the same sense?
  • No.
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TakaThe properties as sounds would it still be OK and make the same sense?
No.
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Then "as sounds" here is not the modifier of "the properties" but "words", right, AS?

The properties of words as sounds
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The sentences, "The properties of sounds.", The properties as sounds.", and The properties of words as sounds.", don't really make sense. The following make more sense:

The properties of sound. (This might be the title of a chapter in a physics or acoustics textbook.)

The properties of materials interpreted as sounds. (Again, this might be a title of a chapter in an acoustics

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