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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 12:18 PM
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DU Grammarians can you say "suffer the indignity" as well as "suffer the
indignation"? Are they interchangeable?
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Shine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 12:20 PM
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1. makes sense to me.
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 12:23 PM
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2. One is the source of offense, the other is the state of being offended
Edited on Sun Apr-09-06 12:24 PM by jpgray
Both are valid to use in the sentence, and have slightly different but basically interchangeable meanings. The former one is more correct, in my view.
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henslee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-09-06 12:27 PM
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3. Thank you... all.
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