A question about prep. "of" (be of)
①Both world wars were OF unquestionable importance as economic events.
Both world wars were unquestionable importance as economic events.
② We don’t know why so many of the paintings are OF hunting scenes.
we don’t know why so many of the paintings are hunting scenes.
Here is my question, can I indicate these sentences in the second way of each one? And is there any distinction between the use with "of" and without "of" ?
Thank you!!
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"Of" is a preposition and you MUST use it because of the way you have structured these two sentences.
Now, if you want to drop the "of" from #1, you would have to say it like so: "Both world wars were unquestionably important economic events."
And for #2 you would have to say it like this: "We don’t know why so many of the paintings depict hunting scenes."
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Number 1 can also be rewritten as "The importance of both world wars as economic events was unquestionable."
We don’t know why so many of the paintings are of hunting scenes.
= We don't know why so many of the paintings portray/depict hunting scenes.
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