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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
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Sadness all around or sadness is all around? which one is more correct?

what's the difference between them?

once, i've read "dissappointment all around"

another time I've read "dissappointment is all around"

would help me to understand time, please?
  

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Hi, what's the difference between them? once, i've read "dissappointment all around" another time I've read "dissappointment is all around" would help me to understand time, please? Di s appointment all around This is not a complete sentence.

  • Hi, what's the difference between them?
  • once, i've read "dissappointment all around" another time I've read "dissappointment is all around" would help me to understand time, please?
  • Di s appointment all around This is not a complete sentence.
  • It has no verb.
  • We don't know, for example, if it is talking about yesterday, today or tomorrow.
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Hi,

what's the difference between them?

once, i've read "dissappointment all around"

another time I've read "dissappointment is all around"

would help me to understand time, please?

Disappointment all around This is not a complete sentence. It has
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And the first can be included in a complete sentence like this, for instance:

When their team lost the World Series, there was disappointment all around.
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thank you guys for the replies

i googled disappointment all around and i found these examples:

1- A sense of disappointment all around

2-Chris Patten: a big disappointment all round

3-A disappointment all around

4-it was disappiontment all around for me "here, should it be hyphenated as: it was disappointment-all-around for me?"

5-
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Hi,

Disappointment all around is a noun phrase.

It's like saying eg love everywhere, eg a yellow chair.

Such phrases can be said by themselves or as part of a sentence.

eg Tom
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A noun phrase? sorry, but what's a noun phrase if I may ask?

love everywhere, is it grammatically unacceptable because it must be with a verb

such as: love is everywhere?

but informally in a conversational talk between native speakers I think that's fine

if someone says: love everywhere

without adding the be verb, right?

I'm really sorry but I
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Hi,

A noun phrase? sorry, but what's a noun phrase if I may ask?

Generally speaking, a group of words that describe a noun.

eg a chair

eg a big chair

eg a big yellow chair

love everywhere, is it grammat
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then why I find native speakers in the internet write articles with titles such as:

1-sadness all over the world

2- disappointment all around

?
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Hi,

Because titles do not have to be complete sentences, and do not have to follow the full rules of grammar.

You didn't say at the start that you were talking about titles.

Clive

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