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"He could write amazing poetry, but he was also a master of ordinary prose dialogue"
Hi guys, I know this isn't the right place to such a question but I need to know what is the category of "prose" in that sentence.
Thank you very much.
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prose
prəʊz/Submit
noun
1.
written or spoken language in its ordinary form, without metrical structure.
"a short story in prose"
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>>8654055
non-poetry
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>>8654055
Anything not verse.
Like in Henry IV
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noun modifier perhaps?
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>>8654071
"Prose dialogue" in that sentence is an adjective. Describing dialogue (conversation between two individuals) that is not in poetic meter. It's loose. Of course you could just call it "prose", but prose is any written language that is not in meter, and does not imply dialogue.
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>>8654342
"prose dialogue" is a noun phrase. "prosaic" is the adjective form.
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>>8654055
In that sentence it is a noun adjunct -- i.e., it is lexically a noun but it occupies an adjunct position in the syntactic structure and functions as a modifier to the noun "dialogue"
another example would be turkey chili. Turkey fucking chili.
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