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Hans51 Posted 10 years ago
Grammar

These logs are leftover from our operations.

These logs are leftover from our operations.

As far as I know, leftover is used as a noun in plural forms like leftovers or as an adjective only in front of nouns like leftover food and then, is the sentence wrong or what does leftover function as here in the sentence?

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Hans51 These logs are leftove rs from our operations. or Hans51 These logs are leftover logs from our operations.

  • Hans51 These logs are leftove rs from our operations.
  • or Hans51 These logs are leftover logs from our operations.
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Hans51These logs are leftovers from our operations.
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Hans51These logs are leftover logs from our operations.
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Note, you can also say:
These logs, (which were) left over from our (previous) operations, can still be used.

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