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Jooney Posted 14 years ago
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Hi,
Compensation followed. Before 1990, pay for the chief executives of financial firms were on par with those of chief executives of the largest traded companies, or even slightly lower.
Q1) Is the noun "pay" used only as non-count noun?
Q2) Can you use "of "in place of "for"?
Q3) The writer used the plural form of "that" to refer to "pay" because it's a non-count noun, but semantically has plural meaning. Correct?
Thank you.
Compensation followed. Before 1990, pay for the chief executives of financial firms were on par with those of chief executives of the largest traded companies, or even slightly lower.
Q1) Is the noun "pay" used only as non-count noun?
Q2) Can you use "of "in place of "for"?
Q3) The writer used the plural form of "that" to refer to "pay" because it's a non-count noun, but semantically has plural meaning. Correct?
Thank you.
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jooney - Q1) Is the noun "pay" used only as non-count noun? Q2) Can you use "of "in place of "for"? Q3) The writer used the plural form of "that" to refer to "pay" because it's a non-count noun, but semantically has plural meaning.
- jooney - Q1) Is the noun "pay" used only as non-count noun?
- Q2) Can you use "of "in place of "for"?
- Q3) The writer used the plural form of "that" to refer to "pay" because it's a non-count noun, but semantically has plural meaning.
- Correct?
- 1) Yes.
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jooney-1) Yes.
Q1) Is the noun "pay" used only as non-count noun?
Q2) Can you use "of "in place of "for"?
Q3) The writer used the plural form of "that" to refer to "pay" because it's a non-count noun, but semantically has plural meaning. Correct?
2) Yes, but that would be strange, though still understandable.
3) There is
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Thank you for your answer, CJ.
Judging from your answer, the antecedent of that or those doesn't necessarily have to be part of a possesive construction.
So,
The Apple store in X street is bigger than that of Y street.
Is this correct?
Also, how do you deal with cases of non-count nouns that denote aggregates of entities such as clo
Judging from your answer, the antecedent of that or those doesn't necessarily have to be part of a possesive construction.
So,
The Apple store in X street is bigger than that of Y street.
Is this correct?
Also, how do you deal with cases of non-count nouns that denote aggregates of entities such as clo
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jooneyJudging from your answer, the antecedent of that or those doesn't necessarily have to be part of a possesive construction.Do you see what happened there? I made the same mistake as that editor did. I didn't realize there was still another change that had to be made
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Thank you so much for the help, CJ. I learned something new today.(well, I always do actually
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