it's a noun, not an adjective
if you use bad grammar, beware. you will not like this post, but i just have to get something off my chest.it's The Dominican REPUBLIC. not "The Dominican."
why?
because "dominican" is an ADJECTIVE. do you call it The United? NO. It's The United STATES. because without the "states", there's nothing to unite. and without the "republic," there's nothing that's Dominican.
so call it what you will. The Dominican Republic. The DR. La Republica Dominicana. La RD. just please, please, PLEASE...don't call it The Dominican.
thank you.
posted by Alexia & Jeffrey @ 4:19 PM
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wow.
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Actually, it's legit. Grammarians call it "nominal ellipsis."
Going by what my NKJV Bible italicizes (meaning, the word isn't really there in the original), Hebrew did it a lot.
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