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dangminh
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one/ones
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Please help me! i don �t understand this sentence: HE USED TO WORK FOR A FINANCE COMPANY, BUT HE MOVED TO AN INSURANCE COMPANY. Why "an insurance company" can �t be replaced by "a insurance one" |
19 Feb 2016
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alien boy
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However in typical English usage, �finance company � would be considered a noun, so you would normally use �insurance company � as a noun, too. This means that the nouns are not identical. |
19 Feb 2016
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redcamarocruiser
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According to Michael Swan �s Practical English Usage, the word �one � is not generally used after noun modifiers. Apparently there is disagreement on this question among the grammarians. Text and Discourse Analysis By Raphael Salkie (copyright 1995) https://goo.gl/URJMFb gives the example "I left the Leeds secondary school and went to the Bradford one."
I agree with Alien boy and Michael Swan that the usage of �one � sounds strange or wrong. "He used to work for this company but he moved to a different one sounds fine," but "he moved to an insurance one" makes me ask an insurance one what? So, I conclude that it is not wrong grammatically, but stylistically sounds indefinite and clumsy, and is not conventional.
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