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| My question concerns the word "relative" in the following sentence : "Your collaborators' relative lack of experience may be a problem" I think that "relative" is used here as attributive adjective of the noun "lack". But my colleague is not of my opinion. For him, "relative" used here is a noun which completes "experience", something in the kind of "cooperation experience". Thank you for your helps, Ansv |
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| I agree with you- it modifies the 'lack', to show that it is a lack in contrast to others' experience. |
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