Timeline for "Listen my dear two-year-old son, this is (a) cat, and that is (a) dog." -- Leaving out the article in definitions like this
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| Apr 17, 2016 at 4:03 | comment | added | user21820 | @Insane: Your suggestion is okay for informal speech, but just technically not grammatical, because "someone is xyz" is a true-false statement but "schizophrenic" is not. Hope this makes it clearer! | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 3:31 | comment | added | Insane | @user21820 Right I know that's proper but I was just wondering if what I said is technically correct. Thanks for explaining | |
| Apr 17, 2016 at 3:16 | comment | added | user21820 | @Insane: No. If you look in any good dictionary, it should say something like "Someone who is schizophrenic suffers from a mental illness called schizophrenia in which ...". | |
| Apr 16, 2016 at 14:01 | comment | added | Insane | .. would continuing it as "Schizophrenic means someone is xyz" make it grammatically correct? | |
| Apr 15, 2016 at 23:54 | comment | added | cat | @Færd Fixed! (filler) | |
| S Apr 15, 2016 at 23:50 | history | suggested | cat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
that last section was, as noted by the OP in a comment on this answer, completely superfluous and not an answer.
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| Apr 15, 2016 at 17:10 | vote | accept | Færd | ||
| Apr 15, 2016 at 15:30 | history | answered | cathygomez | CC BY-SA 3.0 |