English Language & Usage Asked on March 16, 2021
For example, ‘This juice tastes of apple’ makes sense even though there are no apples in the vicinity. Likewise ‘a man is not a woman’ makes sense even though there is no actual woman as an example. I think they sacrifices for verbs. Is it right?
they sacrifices for verbs
This is grammatically wrong and incomprehensible and the link with verbs is not clear. (You should not invent phrases. They are unlikely to be understood.)
In your example, “apple” and “woman” each act as an example and thus act as exemplars:
OED
Exemplar:
4. b. An embodiment or personification of a quality or type; a person who or thing which is typical or characteristic of a category, class, etc., or is an illustration or specimen of a quality or thing.
1744 J. Harris Three Treat. iii. ii. 216 An Offer to paint them a Helen, as a Model and Exemplar of the most exquisite Beauty.
1868 A. Helps Realmah II. xii. 87 The friendship between a dog and a man is the highest form and exemplar of friendship.
2009 Time Out N.Y. 12 Mar. 47/1 Levittown, the Long Island housing development,..became a Stepfordlike exemplar of postwar suburbia.
Correct answer by Greybeard on March 16, 2021
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