NAL123
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Consider this sentence, please:
a) He tested positive for covid-19.
Can we say the following sentence:
b) He tested covid-19 positive. ( I've seen this used in many (Indian) newspapers)
To me, b) sounds awkward and seems grammatically incorrect, because it looks like "covid-19" is modifying the noun "positive", adjectivally, whereas in a), this is not the case.
a) He tested positive for covid-19.
Can we say the following sentence:
b) He tested covid-19 positive. ( I've seen this used in many (Indian) newspapers)
To me, b) sounds awkward and seems grammatically incorrect, because it looks like "covid-19" is modifying the noun "positive", adjectivally, whereas in a), this is not the case.