Capital Punishment

[Highway Man]

You have been attacking other posters spelling a lot recently. It is the lowest form of debate and means you have lost the argument.

and look at his spelling mistakes whilst doing it, he has today called me pomous and various other examples. Totally embarrasing.

 

[pete01]

You have been attacking other posters spelling a lot recently. It is the lowest form of debate and means you have lost the argument.

Exactly he cant even get the better of me and im just an electrician with city and guilds and an NVQ

 

[Highway Man]

Exactly he cant even get the better of me and im just an electrician with city and guilds and an NVQ

I didn't realise that you was qualified..
Charge it !!!!!

 

[pete01]

I didn't realise that you was qualified..
Charge it !!!!!

Well sort of I got some geek to do my work as I was the muscle of the group.

 

[MNW67]

Has @King Billy gone.

I was enjoying the grammar discussion.

 

[Highway Man]

Has @King Billy gone.

I was enjoying the grammar discussion.

Yes with his tail between his legs

 

[King Billy]

No, there isn't.

It is two nouns and a preposition which together form a single grammatical unit which follows the rules for a noun.

You're making it up now.
How many types of theft are there?
How do we differentiate them, by adding an adjective, either before or after, as in 'theft in breach of trust', 'theft of metal', 'theft of art', 'theft of pets' 'theft by deception', etc.
"Theft" is the noun, and the adjective describes the type of theft, as in "Theft of cars", or "car theft".

Moreover, theft is taken to be stealing without the use of force. When the use of force is applied, it becomes a more serious offence, an aggravated offence. Theft involving the use of force becomes robbery.
So "theft of cars" or "car theft" is the lesser of two (or more) evils.
So theft of cars, is not an aggravated offence unless there are other offences committed during the driving.

What is the difference between theft, burglary and robbery?​

The terms theft, burglary and robbery are often used interchangeably – particularly because people tend to commit these offences for very similar reasons. However, there are clear differences between them:

• theft means taking someone’s property but without the use of force
• burglary means illegally entering a property to steal something from it
• robbery means stealing from a person using force (or threatening to use force)

 

[pete01]

You're making it up now.
How many types of theft are there?
How do we differentiate them, by adding an adjective, either before or after, as in 'theft in breach of trust', 'theft of metal', 'theft of art', 'theft of pets' 'theft by deception', etc.
"Theft" is the noun, and the adjective describes the type of theft, as in "Theft of cars", or "car theft".

Moreover, theft is taken to be stealing without the use of force. When the use of force is applied, it becomes a more serious offence, an aggravated offence. Theft involving the use of force becomes robbery.
So "theft of cars" or "car theft" is the lesser of two (or more) evils.
So theft of cars, is not an aggravated offence unless there are other offences committed during the driving.

What about someone who thefts a minute of my life reading a load of crap?

 

[Highway Man]

You're making it up now.
How many types of theft are there?
How do we differentiate them, by adding an adjective, either before or after, as in 'theft in breach of trust', 'theft of metal', 'theft of art', 'theft of pets' 'theft by deception', etc.
"Theft" is the noun, and the adjective describes the type of theft, as in "Theft of cars", or "car theft".

Moreover, theft is taken to be stealing without the use of force. When the use of force is applied, it becomes a more serious offence, an aggravated offence. Theft involving the use of force becomes robbery.
So "theft of cars" or "car theft" is the lesser of two (or more) evils.
So theft of cars, is not an aggravated offence unless there are other offences committed during the driving.

Or you could look at it sensibly and think, is a death sentence a punishment that fits the crime for just car theft, or would aggravated car theft be a reasonable ground for it. Stop digging and accept the lesson that you have learnt.

 

[King Billy]

You have been attacking other posters spelling a lot recently. It is the lowest form of debate and means you have lost the argument.

When one brags about their wisdom, and their superior intellect, highlighting their atrocious spelling and grammar is a perfect tactic to burst their inflated ego.

 

[MNW67]

You're making it up now.
How many types of theft are there?
How do we separate them, by adding an adjective, either before or after, as in 'theft in breach of trust', 'theft of metal', 'theft of art', 'theft of pets' 'theft by deception', etc.
"Theft" is the noun, and the adjective describes the type of theft, as in "Theft of cars", or "car theft".

No, I am correct.
If we take your two examples, 'car theft' and 'fingerless gloves'.
Car theft uses two nouns. No adjective is present. It forms a discrete grammatical unit.
Whereas 'fingerless gloves' is an adjective followed by a noun.

I have massively cut down my posting of AIs. But sometimes it seems the only way to move a stalled discussion forward. Please feel free to come back with your own source:

AI Overview

Car theft
is a compound noun phrase (or noun-noun compound) consisting of two distinct nouns:

1. Car (Noun)
2. Theft (Noun)

It forms a discrete grammatical unit known as a noun adjunct (or attributive noun), where the first noun ("car") functions to modify the second noun ("theft"). While "car" acts as a qualifier, it is syntactically a noun, not an adjective. Together, they function as a single compound noun to represent the specific crime of stealing a motor vehicle.

 

[King Billy]

and look at his spelling mistakes whilst doing it, he has today called me pomous and various other examples. Totally embarrasing.

The difference is between a typo (pomous obviously has a letter missing)and a persistent repetitive misspelling of common 4 letter words.

 

[Highway Man]

The difference is between a typo (pomous obviously has a letter missing)and a persistent repetitive misspelling of common 4 letter words.

Off course mate, I understand, yours are typos whereas anyone else's are laughable and means they do not grasp the English language.

 

[King Billy]

No, I am correct.
If we take your two examples, 'car theft' and 'fingerless gloves'.
Car theft uses two nouns. No adjective is present. It forms a discrete grammatical unit.
Whereas 'fingerless gloves' is an adjective followed by a noun.

I have massively cut down my posting of AIs. But sometimes it seems the only way to move a stalled discussion forward. Please feel free to come back with your own source:

AI Overview

Car theft
is a compound noun phrase (or noun-noun compound) consisting of two distinct nouns:

1. Car (Noun)
2. Theft (Noun)

It forms a discrete grammatical unit known as a noun adjunct (or attributive noun), where the first noun ("car") functions to modify the second noun ("theft"). While "car" acts as a qualifier, it is syntactically a noun, not an adjective. Together, they function as a single compound noun to represent the specific crime of stealing a motor vehicle.

We know HWM was referring to car theft. That was not the problem. He was obviously not referring to any other form of theft.
Theft of cars is differentiating between theft of cars and theft of other objects.
As you AI states, the word (adjective or noun) modifies the noun "theft".
And "cars" or "of cars" acts as an adjective.

Yes — "car" can function adjectivally when it modifies another noun. In English this is usually called a noun adjunct (or attributive noun): a noun used to describe another noun without changing form.

• Compound descriptions: car keys, car door, car engine, car park. In each case "car" narrows the type or purpose of the following noun.
  • They remain syntactically nouns functioning as modifiers.

Therefore the second noun has been modified by an adjective (or nouns functioning as adjectives) so the rule of adjectives applying to several nouns does not apply. Otherwise the punishment would apply to all types of theft. But HWM only applied his punishment to aggravated burglary and one specific type of theft - "theft of cars". Which in itself is not an aggravated offence, unless it becomes one by other offences.

 

[King Billy]

Off course mate, I understand, yours are typos whereas anyone else's are laughable and means they do not grasp the English language.

Precisely. A typo is a missing letter, or interchanged letters, or even the wrong word, as in they're, there, etc.
But persisitent and repetitive misspelled words asuch as bragg are definitely spelling mistakes of simple 4 letter words.