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At my office the marketing department wants to use this as a slogan:"3 ingredients pure effect"Is this grammatically correct? This sounds like bad English to me?

Sam1947 · Accepted Answer

Didn't Clive and I answer this before?  Have you posted it more than once?

Sam1947 · Answer

In cae you missed it from the other post of this, here is my reply. Clive and I agree, without context, and in its present form, it's obviously not a grammatical sentence, and, as a slogan, is hard to discern the meaning of. But, after I thought about it awhile, this is what I replied to your previous post of it:

Could you tell us what kind of product (not the exact thing...just the class) it refers to?

If it is a cosmetic product, I can see this if it were punctuated

Three ingredients--pure effect.

That would say to me that it was a very simple product (most cosmetics have many more ingredients), ergo, the pure effect, literally, but it also conveys "pure effect" meaning "total effect."

The latter connotation is what is meant by pure in the following sentence:

The new X sports car is pure power in a stylish frame.

As it is written all together and without knowing the product, I'm with Clive. At first glance, I had no idea what it meant. That isn't a good thing for an advertising slogan, but, it is possible that knowing the product and from the context of the advertising, it could be made clear and be very powerful. After thinking about it, I can almost picture a beautiful model or actress, with a beautifully made jar in her outstretched hand, and her flawless complexion in close up, saying, "Three ingredients--Pure Effect."

Halldor Sigurdsson · Answer

Sorry for the double post. I thought that maybe my first post was not posted since my pc acted up afterwards. Can you delete this second post?

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