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#1 07-Oct-2011, 11:01governmental 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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#2 07-Oct-2011, 11:13Re: governmental for state
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#3 07-Oct-2011, 11:22Re: 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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#4 07-Oct-2011, 12:33Re: 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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