MeggPhaggSioux Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
MANNER OF SPEAKING
From: www2.wdsdvt.org:8080/WD%20Policy%20Web/F16.htm
"Harassment based on race or color can include unwelcome verbal, written, or physical conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's race or color such as nicknames emphasizing stereotypes, racial slurs, comments on manner of speaking, and negative references to racial customs."
In this context, shoudn't "manner" be preceded by "the", as several dictionaries show "manner" (in the sense of a way of behaving) is countable?
"Harassment based on race or color can include unwelcome verbal, written, or physical conduct directed at the characteristics of a person's race or color such as nicknames emphasizing stereotypes, racial slurs, comments on manner of speaking, and negative references to racial customs."
In this context, shoudn't "manner" be preceded by "the", as several dictionaries show "manner" (in the sense of a way of behaving) is countable?
Top answer
Hi, It sounds OK as written, particularly since it is all in the rather terse style of a defintion. You could argue that it's a shortened form of . .
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Hi,
It sounds OK as written, particularly since it is all in the rather terse style of a defintion.
You could argue that it's a shortened form of
. . . comments on (a person's) manner of speaking, . . .
It sounds OK as written, particularly since it is all in the rather terse style of a defintion.
You could argue that it's a shortened form of
. . . comments on (a person's) manner of speaking, . . .
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