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governmental for state Can I use the adjective "governmental" for the noun "state" as in "the governmental leadership" for "the state leadership"?
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- 07-Oct-2011, 10:13 #2
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Teacher Re: governmental for state I don't understand the question. Please punctuate it intelligibly.
Generally speaking though, it's risky to replace an adjective with a noun...
- 07-Oct-2011, 10:22 #3
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Threadstarter / Original Poster Re: governmental for state Would there be the difference in meaning if I said "the governmental leadership" for "the state leadership"? There are state universities and state colleges.
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- 07-Oct-2011, 11:33 #4
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Teacher Re: governmental for state 'Governmental' doesn't sound right to me. I've had a look in BNC (British National Corpus (BYU-BNC)), and it has no hits for 'governmental leadership', 7 for 'state leadership' and 6 for 'government leadership'. COCA - a bigger corpus, for Am Eng) has 6 hits for 'governmental leadership' but 5 or 6 times as many for each of the others.
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