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1) He is an intense pitcher on the mound.
2) He is of intense pitcher on the mound. Do you need 'of' in the second sentence? Thank you |
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Welkins, I don't know where this of came from, but of course it shouldn't be there. We have an adjective (intense) and a noun (pitcher, so just as you've shown in no. 1, we need an article before those two words to make the noun phrase: an intense pitcher.
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Thank you Richard,
How about the below? The vision that O'Neill has of Pettitte is of an intense pitcher whose entire body http://bulletin.aarp.org/state...s_set_him_apart.html This message has been edited. Last edited by: welkins2139, |
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This is the complete sentence:
"The vision that O’Neill has of Pettitte is of an intense pitcher whose entire body, from his eyes to his toes, screams of concentration." If I paraphrase the first part of this sentence, it's O'Neill has a vision of Pettitte. It's a vision of an intense pitcher whose entire body ... As you can see, of begins the decriptive modifier for a vision. That's the way of is being used here. It's also called the appositive genitive, Welkins. It's used to take something general and give it specific details, and it's a very commonly used, very useful feature of the language. Here are some other examples: |
