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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar
The natural and the supernatural
Hi. I think that we usually use an adjective after a definite article to refer to a group of people as in "the poor" (to refer to all the poor people) but in limited context I think other uses are possible (but I am not sure, though). Do you think this made-up sentence is correctly written without the parts in parentheses?
(possibly in an article dealing with a religion)
When you are focusing on the supernatural (world? phenomena? reality?), you shouldn't think of the natural (world? phenomena? reality?).
(possibly in an article dealing with a religion)
When you are focusing on the supernatural (world? phenomena? reality?), you shouldn't think of the natural (world? phenomena? reality?).
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Using an adjective as a pronoun is practiced, but it is normally limited to a relatively few well-used forms. These are common: the rich, the supernatural, the poor, the hungry, the unexpected, the meek . These are exceedingly odd: the tall, the sleepy, the natural, the unnoticed, the angry .
- Using an adjective as a pronoun is practiced, but it is normally limited to a relatively few well-used forms.
- These are common: the rich, the supernatural, the poor, the hungry, the unexpected, the meek .
- These are exceedingly odd: the tall, the sleepy, the natural, the unnoticed, the angry .
- As you can see, there is no pattern; it is just what has been used enough to be readily understood.
- In your last sentence, ' natural ' works without its noun only because it is so obviously set in contradistinction to the accepted ' supernatural '.
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Using an adjective as a pronoun is practiced, but it is normally limited to a relatively few well-used forms.
These are common: the rich, the supernatural, the poor, the hungry, the unexpected, the meek.
These are exceedingly odd: the tall, the sleepy, the natural, the unnoticed, the angry.
As you can see, there is no pattern; it is just what has been u
These are common: the rich, the supernatural, the poor, the hungry, the unexpected, the meek.
These are exceedingly odd: the tall, the sleepy, the natural, the unnoticed, the angry.
As you can see, there is no pattern; it is just what has been u
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