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Anonymous Posted 19 years ago
Grammar
usef of "of"
0 Dear people, 02 br
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00 I am writing an academic paper. Suppose that I write the following sentene: 02 br
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00 'The income of retirement is always low'. 02 br
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00 I can also write 02 br
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00 'The retirement income is always low'. 02 br
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00 In the second sentence i reverse the word order and get rid of the "of". 02 br
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00 Would there be any problem if I always do this, to drop "of". 02 br
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00 In the whole text it saves some space, and I dont really undertand why one would say "income of retirement" instead of "retirement income". 02 br
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00 I would appreciate your answers. 0-
02 br
00 I am writing an academic paper. Suppose that I write the following sentene: 02 br
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00 'The income of retirement is always low'. 02 br
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00 I can also write 02 br
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00 'The retirement income is always low'. 02 br
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00 In the second sentence i reverse the word order and get rid of the "of". 02 br
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00 Would there be any problem if I always do this, to drop "of". 02 br
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00 In the whole text it saves some space, and I dont really undertand why one would say "income of retirement" instead of "retirement income". 02 br
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00 I would appreciate your answers. 0-
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0 01 blockquote 01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Dear people, 12 br 12 br 10 I am writing an academic paper. Suppose that I write the following sentene: 12 br 12 br 10 'The income of retirement is always low'. 12 br 12 br 10 I can also write 12 br 12 br 10 'The retirement income is always low'.
- 0 01 blockquote 01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Dear people, 12 br 12 br 10 I am writing an academic paper.
- Suppose that I write the following sentene: 12 br 12 br 10 'The income of retirement is always low'.
- 12 br 12 br 10 I can also write 12 br 12 br 10 'The retirement income is always low'.
- 12 br 12 br 12 blockquote 10 01 b 01 font 00 "Always" is as dangerous a word as "never", when talking about most things, but especially about grammar.
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01 cite 10 Anonymous 12 cite 10 Dear people, 12 br
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10 I am writing an academic paper. Suppose that I write the following sentene: 12 br
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10 'The income of retirement is always low'. 12 br
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10 I can also write 12 br
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10 'The retirement income is always low'.
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0 It would seem that some changes could be made. 02 br
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00 "The income of retirement is always low." 02 br
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00 "The retirement income is always low." 02 br
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00 In the first sentence 'The' is useful, in the second it is not. 02 br
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00 "Retirement income is always low." 02 br
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00 I wouldn't say
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00 "The income of retirement is always low." 02 br
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00 "The retirement income is always low." 02 br
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00 In the first sentence 'The' is useful, in the second it is not. 02 br
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00 "Retirement income is always low." 02 br
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00 I wouldn't say
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