Guest Posted 23 years ago
Grammar
Repetitive adjectives
With repetitive adjectives, e.g... brass compression nut, brass insert and brass sleeve Do you necessarily have to include all three "brass" adjectives? Is writing it like this: brass compression nut, insert and sleeve correct English grammar?
Top answer
It depends on the situation. If you feel that there might be ambiguity if you do not include, then you ought to repeat the adjective; but if your meaning is clear enough when you only state it once, then go ahead and leave it out.
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It depends on the situation. If you feel that there might be ambiguity if you do not include, then you ought to repeat the adjective; but if your meaning is clear enough when you only state it once, then go ahead and leave it out.
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