So, can anyone tell me what part of speech 'fecal' is as opposed to 'feces' (I would say 'sic' but that would lead to more jokes, sooo... 'American sp.')* ?
I wonder how I ended up in a career where at some point I would have to explain to someone the difference between the two as in the following paragraph:
'The fecal cholesterol concentration of rats fed on LAB strains increased compared with the control group (P < 0.05). Groups E7304 and MG9-2 showed higher cholesterol contents than Group E7301, and Group E7304 excreted the most cholesterol in fecal than the others.
Is it an adjective?
*I realise this is a very confusing sentence, sorry :D
2 comments:
Yes fecal is an adjective. Feces is a noun. 'Fecal matter' would work as a noun if person really want to use fecal.
Great,thank you. No he really needs to use 'feces' in the 35 other places he made the same error, I suspect a certain amount of spell-check gone amiss.
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