Timeline for What is the difference between "Of" and "Of the"?
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| Mar 11, 2017 at 9:29 | vote | accept | Ahmed Emad | ||
| Mar 10, 2017 at 7:42 | comment | added | Chris M | @user178049 the OP isn't asking whether nouns can be used as adjectives and a noun after the word of doesn't become an adjective it is still a noun. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 7:30 | comment | added | Chris M | Yes it does, the OP asked what the difference between the two is and I answered that. Where's your answer? | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 7:27 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | A noun can function as an adjective in the attributive position(linguists call it a noun adjunct or attributive noun). Anyway, I don't think this post answers the question. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 7:24 | comment | added | Chris M | A noun isn't an adjective! Are you suggesting my examples should be King of king, which makes as much sense as Prince of sea (i.e. none) and King of the king, which does mean the king's king just as King of the kings means the kings' King. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 5:37 | comment | added | Mohd Zulkanien Sarbini | To the best of my knowledge, "a Prince of sea"= "A sea prince", "A prince of the sea" = "The sea's prince". By the same token, a noun after the of shouldn't be plural because it's used as an adjective. | |
| Mar 10, 2017 at 4:06 | history | answered | Chris M | CC BY-SA 3.0 |