[thechat] Grammatically romantic (was Hollywood Movies and Fa milies)
martin burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Jul 19 17:40:00 CDT 2002
At 23:32 19/07/2002, Quackamoe wrote:
>Correct:
>
> 'Kubrick's "The Killing" is an example of film
>noir.'
>
>Incorrect:
>
> 'Kubrick's "The Killing" is a film noir.'
Only if you're treating 'film noir' as a compound noun, as opposed to a
noun-adjective pair "a film of type noir"
Cheers
Martin
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