Monday, February 9, 2015

grammaticality - When refering to two distinct objects that share the same noun, can you omit one instance of the noun and leave only the corresponding adjective?

For example:



"I have a red ball and a blue ball. The red and blue balls are in the corner."



"There is a first circuit for detecting motion and a second circuit for compensating for the detected motion. The first and second circuits are disposed on the same chip."



"The driver applies an ON voltage and an OFF voltage to the scanning line. The ON and OFF voltages are alternated each scanning period."




These all seem right to me, but I do not know why. This issue appears related to the "suspended hyphen" rule, but since the phrases in question are not hyphenated words, I am not sure if that rule applies.

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