Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
Vocabulary
Silence pre-election
“What we’ve seen post-election is that business voices that had felt bullied into silence pre-election are recovering their voice,” explained a senior official. (The Guardian.)
Does "silence" attributively modify "pre-election" in the sentence above?
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anonymous Does "silence" attributively modify "pre-election" in the sentence above? No. Not at all.
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anonymousDoes "silence" attributively modify "pre-election" in the sentence above?
No. Not at all. 'silence' is a noun. 'pre-election' is an adverb of time. It tells us when the feeling of bullying occurred.
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