http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/10/07/party-as-an-adjective/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:23:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/10/07/party-as-an-adjective/comment-page-1/#comment-9798 Ken Adams Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:06:41 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/10/07/party-as-an-adjective/#comment-9798 Kazu: If you can accomplish any given drafting goal in two or more ways, you should choose, and use consistently, the usage that's clearest and most efficient. In this case, I suggest that using <em>party</em> as an adjective is more concise than using it as a noun. I'd be the first to admit that the difference is trivial enough. But clear drafting is, in large measure, the result of the cumulative effect of many such choices. Ken Kazu: If you can accomplish any given drafting goal in two or more ways, you should choose, and use consistently, the usage that’s clearest and most efficient. In this case, I suggest that using party as an adjective is more concise than using it as a noun. I’d be the first to admit that the difference is trivial enough. But clear drafting is, in large measure, the result of the cumulative effect of many such choices. Ken

]]> http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/10/07/party-as-an-adjective/comment-page-1/#comment-9797 Kazu Mon, 08 Oct 2007 20:00:16 +0000 http://www.adamsdrafting.com/2007/10/07/party-as-an-adjective/#comment-9797 I am unclear as to why using "party" as an adjective is superior to using it as a noun. I am unclear as to why using “party” as an adjective is superior to using it as a noun.

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