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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
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when to use adjective as adjective or noun as adjective?
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00 when to use adjective as adjective or noun as adjective? For example, it can be stated as "cancer center," but what about "cancerous center?" 02 br
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00 I know most people would use " cancer center," but should the "cancerous center" also be right? 0-
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00 when to use adjective as adjective or noun as adjective? For example, it can be stated as "cancer center," but what about "cancerous center?" 02 br
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00 I know most people would use " cancer center," but should the "cancerous center" also be right? 0-
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0 No. All people would use cancer center. 02 br 02 br 00 Here's another example.
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- All people would use cancer center.
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- A beauty shop is a shop which provides and deals with beauty.
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0 No. All people would use cancer center. Cancerous center is something different, like a building which is infected with cancer (if that were possible). 02 br
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00 Here's another example. A beauty shop is a shop which provides and deals with beauty. A beautiful shop is beautiful. 02 br
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00 The question is whether you are describing the noun or definin
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00 Here's another example. A beauty shop is a shop which provides and deals with beauty. A beautiful shop is beautiful. 02 br
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0 I'd say it depends on what you mean. I would interpret "cancer center" mean a building or group of buildings where cancer is studied and/or treated. If I wanted to refer to the center of a cancerous mass, I would say "the cancer's center" or "the center of the cancer." "The cancerous center" would mean, to me, the cancerous center of something which was not entirely cancerous. (For instance
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