Can you say "paint price" instead of "painting price"?
English Language & Usage Asked on January 25, 2021
Is this sentence ok as currently written?
The paint price is high.
I ask because the free online proofreading service from Grammarly, Inc. tries to change that sentence to The painting price is high, but the purpose of the sentence is to denote that the price of the paint is high, not the price of the painting process.
Is this just some dumb software bug, or am I missing something important here?
One Answer
If you check Gngrams you will find that the phrase the paint price is simply not used. I have, however, found that
the price of the paint (the price of paint - also possible)
or
paint prices (less common)
are used instead.
The only instance I could find of "paint price" was in this ad from Google:
Answered by fev on January 25, 2021
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