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 Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 8:26 am Post subject: |
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Both (1) and (2) are fine.
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(1) I like orange.
(2) I like the color orange. |
When used as a noun, "orange" is uncountable.
The definite article is used because...
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3. in sentences or clauses where we define or identify a particular person or object:
Examples: The man who wrote this book is famous.
'Which car did you scratch?' 'The red one.
My house is the one with a blue door.' |
(from http://www.edufind.com/ENGLISH/grammar/Determiners2a.cfm)
As for the word order (color orange) in (2), this is the best explaination I can find (from http://www.iscribe.org/english/noun.html):
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noun functioning as an adjective
The water pump is broken.
The word water is a noun, but in this application it functions as an adjective that describes the kind of pump. |
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| (3) I like the orange color. |
This sentence might be ok if someone was asking you which color you liked from a selection of colors you are both looking at. But even then, I would probably say, "I like the orange."
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